Our Take on “Stolen laptops fuel industrial espionage fears for UK software firm”
Physical theft of IT equipment is something every company has to pay special attention to, whether it is from the perspective of disaster recovery, getting the business back online, or from disclosure of information. It seems that though VBi Triscan Systems had prepared for the data recovery response with backups, they hadn’t made any attempt to mitigate the threat of information leakage. Particularly damming was a comment from their managing director, Simon Hollingsworth, who admitted that his company was a “..prime target for this kind of activity.”
To add to that, Barry McLeod, the company’s marketing director, admitted that the value of the data was significantly more than the value of the hardware. The obvious question is, if two of VBi Triscan’s senior staff knew that they were both at risk of a theft, and that the data was extremely valuable, why didn’t they do anything to protect it? This is yet another example, perhaps, of corporate apathy, especially since encrypting data is not a complicated or costly process, it’s not a bleeding-edge technology, and it’s not very expensive.
Our Take is contributed by SafeBoot Chief Technology Officer, Simon Hunt
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