The Challenge from More than 46 Data Breach Compliance Laws
Prior to state data breach disclosure laws, society didn’t have much visibility into what types of, or how many, data breaches were underway. That all changed July 1, 2003, when California’s security breach notification law, often referred to as SB 1386, went into effect.
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Can Secure Teleworking Keep London Productive During the Games?
With the world’s biggest athletic event opening in London this week, we thought we’d share some thoughts from our team in the UK with a guest post from Nick Banks, head of Imation mobile security in Europe and APAC:
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Secure mobile solutions, telework, and BYOD support government and business continuity
In February 2010, relentless blizzards, later termed “Snowmageddon,” forced government agencies in and around the DC area to shut their doors for a record-breaking five days. The price tag for the closings: roughly $71 million a day, according to OPM (Office of Personnel Management) Director John Berry.
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Last week, Yahoo! announced a customer data breach, again illustrating the vulnerability of user identities on widely used services. As reported by GovInfoSecurity, among others, a hacking group called D33Ds posted more than 400,000 usernames and passwords online.
The passwords were apparently stored in plain text and not encrypted, which highlights the need for service providers to implement stronger security practices and better protect user names and passwords.
While we continue to advise users on the ways they can strengthen the security of their personal information, companies storing that information must meet a minimum standard to help them do that. Network security won’t stop every attack, so encryption of personal information should be seen as the first wall of defense.
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Data Security for Remote Workers
It seems every week there’s another news story about a mobile storage device being a central part of a security breach. Whether that’s a worker losing an unencrypted device, or, as in the case of the Flame malware, actually used as part of the attack.
These types of incidents show that data security is no longer just about defending the corporate perimeter: where the network is trusted and everything outside is suspect. Today, data needs to be protected wherever it travels and wherever the user works.
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Yes, But Adequate Security Will Be Crucial for Enterprise Adoption of Windows To Go.
There certainly was plenty of interesting news at the Microsoft TechEd North America conference recently. Updates included new versions of Internet Explorer, the Office productivity suite, and its flagship Windows operating system. All of this is important to enterprise customers, of course. But one thing that caught our eye, and hasn’t received the attention we think it deserves, is the potential impact of Microsoft Windows To Go.
In case you’re not familiar with it, Windows To Go provides a stored and full bootable image of Windows 8 on a USB device, so that mobile workers, contractors, telecommuters – basically anyone – can work just about anywhere they need or want, from almost any laptop they want.
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