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Flash Drives: The quickest way to lose confidential data?
Flash Drives: The quickest way to lose confidential data?
By Richard Moss | Jan 13, 2009 | 3744 reads
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So here we go again, Hong Kong's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) is following up on a possible case of confidential data leakage involving a USB device lost on the public transport system.
An FEHD spokesperson is quoted as stating that their employees are required to report any loss of confidential data and that the department has guidance aimed to remind employees to avoid storing confidential and sensitive data in USB flash drives. The Hong Kong Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data is again involved less than 2 weeks after it released a report on a similar incident following the loss of a flash drive containing patients’ personal data at United Christian Hospital.
Of course, the loss of storage devices such as this is not so much about the device itself but rather about the data it contains - now it's pretty much impossible to stop people losing these devices as they are relentlessly get smaller in size yet their storage capacity is increasing: so in essence, technology is making it much easier to lose much more!
And its not just the fact that thumb drives are getting smaller either, its becoming increasingly hard to determine what is, and what isn't, a thumb-drive ... iPOD's, Mobile Phones, Digital Camera's all contain mass-storage capability creating a major headache for organizations concerned with securing sensitive data: standard storage devices are becoming smaller with new type of mass-storage appearing all the time; today you can even buy a pen with a USB drive built-in.
So what’s the answer? (continue to read)
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So the information security industry should care: there is no quick fix for this and the threat will be upon us before we are prepared so there is no room for complacency or belief that the prevention of terrorism will be handled by some one else - and yet there is plenty of evidence of just that – complacency!
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