Employees travelling with work devices are proving to be a major security risk for their organisations, according to new findings.
Research from EMC and Mozy found that over a third (34 percent) of workers admitted to losing a work device with data stored on it over the past 12 months, with laptops, smartphones, USB drives and hard drives the main victims.
Additional research by EMC found that 45 percent of organisations aren’t able to recover all their data following a data loss incident, with the average business facing an annual financial loss of $585,892.
Overall, 1.2 exabytes of data moves through London each day –enough to stream 60,000 years of DVD-quality video, according to SearchStorage, and EMC says that the findings highlight the risk of moving data from a safe, controlled environment (the office) to an unsafe, uncontrolled environment (the outside world).
In an office, employees may be prevented from using unsecure file sharing services in case it escapes corporate control. But counterintuitively, at the end of the day, the same employees might carry this data home on their laptops.
In order to combat this, the company has offered five top tips to help prevent data loss on the move:
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