Kingston Identifies Best Practices for Portable Data to Prevent Data Breaches
Kingston today identified best practices and the risks associated with a lack of security policies in organizations using USB Flash drives containing confidential corporate data. Unsecure USB Flash drives still remain the culprit behind many security breaches. The complete list, Best Practices: Using and Promoting Secure USB Flash Drives in Your Organization, identifies the top best practices that organizations can follow to promote the use of secure USB Flash drives to protect important and confidential data. You can download the “Best Practices” PowerPoint presentation here.
Security breaches continue globally and many are the result of either lost or unsecured USB drives. Last August, the Ponemon Institute released a report, The State of USB Drive Security, which interviewed nearly 750 IT professionals and IT security practitioners from global companies based in the United States. The report revealed that while companies understand that employee negligence puts their organizations at risk, many of these same companies do not take the necessary steps to use secure USB drives and set proper policies. The report found that of those polled, 71 percent do not consider protecting confidential and sensitive information on USB Flash drives to be a high priority even though the majority of them feel that data breaches are caused by missing USB drives. The report further uncovered that businesses are still astoundingly lax when it comes to USB security despite recognizing the dangers and negative ramifications. Less than a third of them believe they have adequate policies to prevent USB misuse and, on average, lost 12,000 customer records per organization due to missing USB drives. Additionally, a staggering number of employees use or have used free and unsecured USB drives from conferences and trade shows, representing a potential security breach in ones back pocket.
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