AlertBoot Full Disk Encryption — Comprehensive Security for Complete Peace of Mind

It was only two days ago that the world found out about the sale of a camera with confidential information from MI-6.  The media is now reporting that MI-5 is looking for a palmtop computer that went missing after a thief burglarized a house rented by the intelligence service.  The good news is that the device, which did have sensitive and confidential intelligence stored on it, had used data encryption to protect its contents, data protection that works at its core like hard drive encryption from AlertBoot.  The bad news is that the story made the news.  The odd story is, also, that it made the news.

According to the letter sent out by Drs. Gangwish and Morgan at the Summer Avenue Chiropractic clinic, thieves broke into the clinic and stole computers that contained the information of patients, including names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.  But, there’s no need to worry since the information was encrypted.  But, as a precaution, patients ought to keep an eye out for any unusual activity on their credit reports.  This was the gist of the letter.

According to a study by the Ponemon Institute, thirty-one percent of surveyed people terminated their business relationships with a company that suffered a data breach.  If you are trusted with the sensitive information of other people, and happen to work for an organization that is not a monopoly or the government, this ought to be a wakeup call.  You need to protect data, not because it’s the law or because it’s the right thing to do—obviously, those are important considerations as well—but because, depending on your luck, about a third of your customer base is going to wave goodbye in the event of a data breach.  Plug that into your ROI or Value-at-Risk models to see if using data security products like full disk encryption from AlertBoot makes sense. (Hint: It does.)

MI6.  Home of James Bond, Q, and Dame Judi Dench, arguably the best M ever.  Shaken Vodka Martinis, never stirred.  Babes.  But going forward, “Nikon Coolpix” may be what comes up to some people’s minds when MI6 is mentioned.

Personal details of 50,000 current and ex RAF personnel was lost on September 17.  From a high-security area.  The sensitive information was stored on three external hard drives that were not protected with hard drive encryption software like AlertBoot.  This case is something of a calamity, since it’s more than a lost or stolen disk.  Unlike the incidents over the past year, this isn’t a case where an officer used poor judgment and took sensitive information to McDonald’s, to a pub, or to a club.  Someone managed to steal it from what I’m led to believe is a secure space.