Removable media in the workplace can become a security timebomb

July 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Preventing people bringing removable media devices into the office is an extremely difficult problem. However, although they are fun and convenient they are very easy to lose or abuse and therefore a real security threat. If companies are to prevent breaking legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley, Basel 2, The Data Protection Act, as well as not falling victim to the havoc these tiny portable devices can cause, companies need to rapidly get to grips with the risks associated with removable media and protect themselves against these risks.

According to a survey on "Removable Media in the Workplace" companies’ information security expenditure could still all be for nothing as they continue to turn a blind eye to the threat of removable media for a second year in a row. The research, conducted by mobile security specialists Pointsec, shows that removable media devices such as media players, memory sticks and USB flash drives are now routinely used by a huge number of employees in the vast majority of UK businesses, but with little regard to the security threat they pose.

A staggering two-thirds of IT professionals who use removable media themselves at work admitted that they did not protect them with encryption even though they are aware of the associated dangers. Security Park - Removable media in the workplace can become a security timebomb

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Removable media in the workplace can become a security timebomb

July 7th, 2006 · No Comments

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