USB Memory Sticks and Flash Drives

USB Flash Drives are particularly inexpensive, easy-to-use and easy-to-lose. A well-meaning employee may believe he is out of pocket just £15 when he realizes that he’s left his USB flash drive behind at the coffee shop across from the office; however, the loss to his company will be a great deal more if the data contained on the flash drive should fall into the wrong hands.

PDA's and Mobile Phones

PDAs and mobile phones are now commonplace, with style and novelty often exceeding practical use. Around most offices these devices rarely warrant a second glance. Yet in the hands of a disgruntled employee or opportunistic contractor, these present a highly effective means of copying sensitive from the network.

One now famous illustration of how valuable data can be misplaced on these devices is the case where a former employee of a major financial institution sold his wireless handheld PDA device on Ebay. To the buyer’s surprise the handheld’s memory stored the ex-employers customer list.

Media Players and iPods

Music or other IP sharing that takes place on the corporate network leaves the company exposed to copyright infringement litigation. And an information thief that uses an Apple iPod player doesn’t even have to be very clever. There is new commercial software that promotes using the iPod as a backup device.

For example, Migo Personal for iPod from PowerHouse Technologies Group sucks up Outlook e-mail, calendar and contacts; Internet Explorer favorites and browsing history; as well as data files, presentations and the like on the iPod's hard drive with a few clicks.

It is clear that all removable devices need to be controlled, and any files copied to cuh devices should be encrypted.

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