Laptop Computer Security

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Rip of the Week: MoD Laptop Stolen…and Encryption Key Too

Here’s an interesting case out of the UK. Thanks go to Redemtech for the alert. The BBC reports that a Ministry of Defence laptop was stolen last November. But in an interesting twist, the encryption (decryption) key was stolen along with it.
All this in the context of the MoD confession back in July that 658 [...]

Tip of the Week: Use Technology to Beat Your Employees

Interesting: back on May 27, my Tip of the Week was entitled “Assume Your Employees Ignore You.” I described how employees really pay little attention to company policy, or even actively break it.
Then, two weeks (to the day) later, Ponemon Institute released another superb study, sponsored by IronKey, this time entitled “Trends in Insider Compliance [...]