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.
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.
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.
USB Memory Stick Security
There’s an interesting story that states that 9,000 USB sticks are lost in laundrettes every year in the UK. The story also says that London taxi drivers claim that over 12,000 portable devices are left in their cabs every year. It just shows how easy it is to overlook these devices that often contain sensitive personal or business data that is often covered by regulator laws.
