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Dumpster Diving for e-Data

"Dumpster Diving" used to involve people digging through trash dumpsters with the intention of discovering valuable paper records with confidential mission-critical data or customer information; this practice is still ongoing today, albeit with USB flash drives, mp3 players, and old laptops.

Because anyone who throws away (or, for that matter, loses) a USB flash drive, mp3 player, or old computer could unwittingly leak confidential information, most, if not all, security experts recommend encrypting these devices in order to protect the sensitive data — whether the data is at rest on a hard drive or being actively transmitted over a network.

SOURCE: Computerworld
DATE: July 18, 2007
LINK: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9027213

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The article quotes Neel Mehta, from IBM Internet Security Systems, who states that because of the easy availability of encryption solutions, for a company to lose unprotected data, it "speaks loud words" about their security policies.

We couldn't agree more. AlertBoot makes it extraordinarily easy to create and roll out comprehensive endpoint security policies that not only fully encrypt hard drives, USB drives, and smart phones or PDAs, but also provide additional features to truly lock down machines and fully secure the confidential data.

In the event that a user does throw away an old USB drive or sells a used computer, you'll never have to worry about leaking any confidential data because of AlertBoot's powerful encryption. Without the correct access, no one can ever get to any old data on your lost, sold, or thrown away device.