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Encrypt all of your laptops, or else...
How easy is it to lose a laptop computer? Very easy. More than 5,000 laptops are lost in taxis in London, New York, Chicago and other large cities every year, and many more disappear at airports and Read more...
Gartner: Seven cloud-commuting security risks
Cloud computing may be the wave of the future, but one cannot ignore dangers involving data integrity, recovery, privacy and regulatory compliance. Gartner, in a new report entitled, "Assessing the Read more...
Phoenix Technologies enables remote drive security
Phoenix Technologies has announced that it will bring its "FailSafe" tech to Fujitsu's new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive. FailSafe allows IT admins to remotely track,
Read more...Data theft headaches grow
Another week, yet another data theft. This time a laptop PC was stolen containing unencrypted, confidential data on March 4 and the event was disclosed after the company began notifying employees Read more...
Tech tool may identify disgruntled workers
The Air Force is developing a data-mining tool to root out disaffected insiders based on their email activity, according to an article in this month's International Journal of Security and Networks. Read more...
Identity theft dropped in 2007
Identity theft actually dropped in 2007, by at least 300,000 cases, according to a new report by Javelin Strategy and Research. That's quite a surprise for all of us who have been reading the stories Read more...
Protect used data tapes
The federal government is on the hot seat once again. Rep. Betty McCollum is calling for an investigation into whether federal agencies resold magnetic data tapes. InformationWeek reports that the Read more...
Follow the government's lead on security
Sometimes the government has to get it right. And one way for a company to get it right is to follow government regulations on security. A new report finds that a company's ability to protect Read more...
Survey: Information mismanagement abounds
About half of organizations aren't training their employees on how to properly manage their records and information, according to a new survey from ARMA International in cooperation with the Read more...
Survey: Portable devices are still a major security threat
A recent study conducted at this spring's InfoSec security conference in London found that many IT managers still view portable storage devices as a significant security threat. That includes all Read more...