Full disk encryption comes to workgroups
Losing your laptop can be expensive in three ways. First, you'll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the hardware. Second, you'll suffer the time and aggravation of restoring your data, all the while hoping you have everything backed up properly. But most expensive? Surviving the backlash and legal consequences of losing customer data, financial records and private company information.
How expensive can that last penalty be? Some experts put the minimum price at US$50,000 if you lose customer data that requires you to comply with your state's security breach notification law. All states now have these laws in some form or another. But beyond the legal implications, how would you like to contact all your customers and explain how their financial data was on a laptop you left at the airport security checkpoint?
