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Citigroup Customer Data Leaked on LimeWire

Citigroup is currently investigating a data breach of the confidential data (including Social Security Numbers and credit information) of 5,208 customers. The data was inadvertently leaked onto a peer-to-peer("P2P") file-sharing network via the Limewire software.

The ABN Amro mortgage analyst had installed the Limewire P2P software on her computer and unknowingly exposed the contents of her computer to the file-sharing network, where the spreadsheet of data was promptly downloaded by thousands of P2P users.

SOURCE: eWEEK.com
DATE: September 21, 2007
LINK: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2186776,00.asp

The AlertBoot Endpoint Security Advantage

This situation showcases two distinct problems facing many companies:
(1) How do you prevent data from leaking out on exposed devices?
(2) How do you prevent your employees from installing and using unauthorized software?

If this computer was encrypted and protected with AlertBoot, both problems would have been easily solved. AlertBoot offers not only full hard disk encryption but also advanced content encryption. While the full disk encryption protects the entire device in the event of theft or unauthorized use, the content encryption offers "persistent encryption" for your file formats — thus ensuring that each and every spreadsheet authored, opened, or saved on a computer is fully encrypted no matter where.

Additionally, AlertBoot offers companies the ability to truly lock down computers and prevent the actual installation of non-authorized software on corporate computers.

Doing this alone would have prevented the installation of the P2P software that started the mess to begin with.