Sometimes even good organizations can lose data. I've heard of a number of cases of E&Y losing laptops, but at least they report it. I wonder how many other organizations don't bother!
The ideal is to prevent the loss of information. However, you can't stop laptops from getting stolen, so we need some legislation (or business initiative) to force protection of data, through encryption and authentication. In the event that data does get stolen, we also need to ensure that corporations know what data has been stolen, and that they are mandated to notify those affected.
This seems to be happening everywhere! E&Y seems to loss a lot of laptops.
The problem is, you can't just use corporate policies, because some people just won't follow it. You need some software to enforce the policy. There are a couple of comapnies out there doing such things - like Softection www.softection.com for example.
With all the sensitive data out there - I wonder if cases of identity theft have been on the rise. Anyone know?
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Sometimes even good organizations can lose data. I've heard of a number of cases of E&Y losing laptops, but at least they report it. I wonder how many other organizations don't bother!
The ideal is to prevent the loss of information. However, you can't stop laptops from getting stolen, so we need some legislation (or business initiative) to force protection of data, through encryption and authentication. In the event that data does get stolen, we also need to ensure that corporations know what data has been stolen, and that they are mandated to notify those affected.
This seems to be happening everywhere! E&Y seems to loss a lot of laptops. The problem is, you can't just use corporate policies, because some people just won't follow it. You need some software to enforce the policy. There are a couple of comapnies out there doing such things - like Softection www.softection.com for example. With all the sensitive data out there - I wonder if cases of identity theft have been on the rise. Anyone know?