Here are some pertinent words from Wedge Green on this painful subject
of laptop and server security:
<<In the meantime the extraordinarily wide dispersion of private data
into so many different application data stores, each in its own
company has laid open this information to data thieves. Breaches of
the public trust by companies and agencies of the government have made
the criminal accessibility of private information a weekly item in the
evening news. Companies have been too lax at handling information and
now they and their executives are paying for this, big time. It
affects all of us; including me, including you. Last fall I received a
letter from my old employer MCI, aka WorldCom, that an employee had
let a laptop be stolen that contained my vital identity data and
employment records. What was horrendous was that I had not worked
there for over 3 years. Why was this data still in the possession of
HR people on their laptops for their daily assignments? And it is not
just companies making mistakes on information in their direct control.
I also got a letter from Hotels.com that their accountant/system's
integrator Ernst & Young had lost a laptop with data on my financial
transactions with Hotels.com.
What response can corporations take to this calamity? Today! Because
this problem is too immediate to wait for my future chaotic
ecosystems. Well, MCI did the correct response. Soon after this data
exposure, the company bought a site license to `file encryption
technology.' MCI mandated every user convert their desktop and laptop
system to use the product. They managed the corporate-wide conversion
to encrypted user resident files seemingly without major problems, in
very little time. This class of product, file encryption managers, is
available for purchase now and new and better products are springing up.
"Ernst & Young, which has 30,000 laptops used by its highly mobile
staff of
consultants, is encrypting all contents on the computers,
according to company spokesman Charlie Perkins."
- - Encryption a simple tool to protect data, Associated Press, By
Stephen Manning
Every company should have this in use - so go do it NOW.
But this just protects the employee edge-system user-exposed data.
What is being done about all that information stored in all those
internal enterprise servers with their must-have application-specific
databases, that all the many segmented IT groups generated as a part
of their contribution to the mess that is telecom IT systems?>>
You can read this blog at:
http://ltcinternational.com/ltcblog2/index.html
Gervas
--- In [email protected], "Gervas
Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Keith has just blogged an article which is very relevant to recent
> discussions in this Group:
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/n-gaa/message/829?l=1
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> Gervas
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