Not Me Guv

So, if you lost your laptop and it resulted in a data loss incident - who would you blame? In a recent surveyonly 17% of office staff and 21% of IT staff thought it would be their fault… the rest thought it was the CEO’s fault or the company’s. Bizarre but true.

Reality is that it is up to everyone to protect the data and the company should provide appropriate technology to help. If you have a company laptop and it contains sensitive information ask about full disk encryption, the same is true for mobile phones (well, the ones which get email, etc, etc). These are relatively simple to install and administer. If you send data out on a CD, then ask if it is encrypted - and if not, ask about encryption solutions to be added into the process. Again, this is not hard to do - and it does reduce the risk.

Finally, if you are really worried about data leaking through email and the like, then ask about content based data loss prevention - it’s not as simple as putting in encryption, but it does create a much better solution.

So… if you lose data - it is your fault. Especially if you haven’t been and asked for help in preventing it from happening in the first place.

August 5, 2008 | Filed Under Education, data-loss 

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