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Is that a corporate database in your pocket? | July 10, 2008
By Peter Wolchak
Employees are carrying flash drives stuffed with valuable or confidential data, and few of them understand the inherent security risks, according to a recent study from SanDisk. A survey of corporate end users and corporate IT managers found IT executives have no idea how much data is walking around unencrypted in pockets, purses and briefcases; 77 per cent of corporate end users surveyed have used personal flash drives for work-related purposes, but when asked to estimate the percentage of workers using these drives, respondents came back with 35 per cent.
Data files most likely to be copied to a personal flash drive include:
> customer records 25 per cent
> financial information 17 per cent
> business plans 15 per cent
> employee records 13 per cent
> marketing plans 13 per cent
> intellectual property 6 per cent
> source code 6 per cent
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Employees are carrying flash drives stuffed with valuable or confidential data, and few of them understand the inherent security risks, according to a recent study from SanDisk. A survey of corporate end users and corporate IT managers found IT executives have no idea how much data is walking around unencrypted in pockets, purses and briefcases; 77 per cent of corporate end users surveyed have used personal flash drives for work-related purposes, but when asked to estimate the percentage of workers using these drives, respondents came back with 35 per cent. Data files most likely to be copied to a personal flash drive include:
> customer records 25 per cent
> financial information 17 per cent
> business plans 15 per cent
> employee records 13 per cent
> marketing plans 13 per cent
> intellectual property 6 per cent
> source code 6 per cent
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