There is yet another report of a laptop going missing with sensitive data on it. A laptop was stolen from the home of a HSE employee. Recent reports include the Bank of Ireland and other HSE incidents where personal data of their customers has been compromised. This damages the reputation of these organisations, their credibility when it comes to security, gets the Data Protection Commissioner very interested in their operations and damages their customers.
Protecting yourself against loss of control of your data on laptops either via loss or theft requires encrypting the disk containing that data. You might remember when the Irish Blood Transfusion Board lost a laptop in the USA containing sensitive data. It turns out that the laptop was correctly secured. Security experts compared getting unauthorised access to the encrypted data to winning the Euro Lottery 10 weeks in a row. Those are pretty good odds if it’s your personal information on that protected computer.
C Infinity offers a Data Encryption service as an easy to deploy and easy to use solution for protecting your laptop. It’s ideal for large or small organisations and it doesn’t require any new IT infrastructure on your site. Now you can automatically protect those laptops using a subscription service. You return control of your data to your organisation – even if you lose physical control over the computer!
Data security is so much more than just encryption. Another consideration is ensuring that your data will be available after a disaster – and available securely; it’s that last bit that people often fail to consider. Laptop users are increasingly becoming “road warriors”, often not returning to the office for weeks at a time. They have company data on their machines but it’s normally not backed up. Using Data Backup for PC’s & Desktops that C Infinity hosts, you can securely backup the selected laptop data to our secure and duplicated data stores. Data is encrypted at source and remains that way until you recover it – even we can’t access your data. Recovery is simple using the agent or we can export the backup so you can recover from that.
Using our encryption & backup solutions you can protect your data from unwanted access and from loss so your business can get back up an running quickly and securely.
If you would like more information on our data protection services contact us directly.
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