Encrypt data or invite disaster
In today's workplace, stealing information doesn't require a covert Special Forces team: It is often done by an employee armed with a 5 GB USB flash drive. And your unsecured, unencrypted network invites a hacker to compromise a server or workstation holding sensitive data.
But you don't have to be vulnerable. There are plenty of options available today for securing/encrypting your data and many of these options are just overlooked.
Consider in recent news the security breach where hackers obtained access to more than 40 million credit card accounts. Could this have been avoided?
Yes! If the data had been encrypted, we wouldn�t have 40 million people losing sleep.
In other news, Citigroup announced that 4 million consumer records, stored on magnetic computer tapes, were mysteriously lost during a shipment by UPS to a credit reporting agency.
Guess what? Those tapes were not encrypted. And the list of examples goes on.
