Survey suggests travelers need to do more to lock down their laptops. Most travelers carry little of value on their laptops, but those who do carry valuable information store an average of $525,000 worth of sensitive data, according to a recent survey. (read full article)
What would happen if a mobile device loaded with your company's sensitive data were lost? Encryption products could save the day. (read full article)
Factor in tech-system vulnerabilities in your business planning to ensure smooth operations at every stage (and ward off competition.) (read full article)
Most computer-security professionals don't believe in security. To those who know better, a computer network can never be "secure"- only "more secure." In other words: no data is absolutely safe. (read full article)
Haven't encrypted your laptop fleet yet? There's no excuse for that choice anymore. Check out today's smart strategies for improving laptop security—before the next machine disappears. (read full article)
If you give a company your name and address, how many copies of this data do you think will exist in databases around the world a mere 12 months later? (read full article)
When the "Anna Kournikova" virus was spreading wildly in 2001, it infected millions of computers and clogged e-mail servers by offering a racy picture of the teen tennis star to unsuspecting e-mailers. Or, in some cases, not so unsuspecting. "A big proportion of the infections we saw were coming from people who had actually gone out searching for the virus because they wanted to see Anna Kournikova," says David Perry, global director of education for Trend Micro. "We didn't see this happening two times. We saw it thousands of times." (read full article)
Fabiana Gower considered some unconventional methods to prevent data losses when portable storage devices began appearing in her company's IT environment about three years ago. "I stopped just short of Super Glue," said Gower, vice president of information systems at Martin, Fletcher, an Irving, Texas-based medical staffing firm.) (read full article)