We have experienced a surge in popularity of our laptop and USB drive encryption in recent months. We are often asked about full disk encryption for USB drives as an alternative to our current Software as a Service (SaaS) encryption offering which just doesn’t encrypt data but can also eliminate it.
The Staggering Costs Of Lost Laptops And What To Do About It
I recently read the results of a Ponemon Institute study which indicated that the average cost of a lost laptop was almost $50,000.
The cost was broken down into seven main drivers:
Can Your Business Afford A Network Virus?
Having your computer infected with a virus can be a headache to deal with. Not only do you have to find the source of the infection to eliminate it but you may also be left with data that can no longer be trusted.
A single infected computer can takes hours to fix but imagine if your whole office network was infected with the virus and multiple computers had to be taken down. This is something that Ealing Council in the UK recently experienced.
Firms leaving themselves open to security breaches
Sunday’s Business Post referenced a recent PWC report highlighting the exposure of many Firms to security breaches and the possibility of sensitive company data or files falling into the wrong hands and possibly compromising the company.
HSBC fined £3m after losing clients’ confidential information – twice
On my way back from a recent business meeting in London my eye was drawn to a newspaper article stating that the Financial Services Authority Board had imposed its greatest fine ever on the bank for losing critical customer information.
Data recovery systems “flawed”
Less than 30% of Irish companies able to restore data from backups! I saw a very interesting piece in the Business supplement in the Irish Times on Friday which said that “many Irish companies are leaving themselves open to disruption or lost revenue due to poor disaster –recovery techniques”.
Personal Details Of 75,000 People On Stolen Bord Gáis Laptops
You’ve probably already heard the news from yesterday evening about the theft of four laptops from the offices of Bord Gáis in Dublin. If not, a burglary took place on Friday 5th June at Bord Gáis offices in Dublin where the laptops had been stolen. It has been confirmed that account numbers and personal details of 75,000 customers had been held on the laptops.
13 Laptops Stolen From Belfast Civil Service
At the end of last month a break-in at Royston House in Belfast, the Department of Finance and Personnel, resulted in 13 laptops being stolen. Some of the laptops contained personal information including employee names, addresses, National Insurance Numbers, date of births and even bank account numbers.
Open For Blackmail After Data Loss
Things just seem to go from bad to worse for the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD) when it comes to how they handle their data. For the past couple of years they have had hundreds of laptops gone missing, scores of USB sticks lost and even external hard drives vanishing from highly secure facilities.
