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Users are saving data on to devices ranging from CDs to iPods, and IT managers are rarely able to keep track of which files have been saved on to portable storage devices, said Sean Wray, chief technology officer of Andover, Mass.-based MobileSecure. What’s worse, he added, is not only can users lose the devices on buses, trains and in other public places, but they are transferring corporate files on to home computers as a means of backing up their work.

Wray spoke at the Spring Security Solutions Symposium, hosted last month by Simple Technology Inc., a Vaughan, Ont.-based security hardware distributor.

Wray said MobileSecure’s management products give IT administrators information on which external devices are connected to the network and information on files that were written to them — allowing managers to figure out who is copying which files. IT Business

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