Over 50% 'leaving mobile security to chance'
23/06/2010 14:00:00
Even though there is increasing emphasis being place on data protection, more than 50 per cent of IT professionals carry unencrypted company data around on a USB stick, a new survey has found.
Some 11 per cent of the workers only use a password to protect their USB device and nothing else, according to the survey sponsored by Credant Technologies, a protection solutions company.
"If over half of this IT savvy audience are carrying unprotected sensitive information on USB sticks, and let's face it you can pick one up for less than £10 in most good supermarkets, it makes me question just how big this problem is and, more importantly, what needs to happen to make organisations wake up to the risk," said Sean Glynn, the company's vice president and chief marketing officer.
At the beginning of the month, the Information Commissioner's Office said that more than 1,000 breaches of data protection have been reported to it.
Any organisations which deliberately, or inadvertently, breach private information could now be subject to fines of up to £500,000 under new rules which are part of the Data Protection Act.
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