Data Leaks For Dummies®

Chapter 9. USB Devices and Removable Media

In This Chapter

• Defeating the threat from USB devices

• Creating a strategy to deal with removable media

• Designing policies for destroying data on removable media

• Locking down a laptop

Never before have organizations and individuals been faced with the mobile dilemma as that they face in today's fast-moving, critical, and complex mobile environment. An organization's success revolves around information technology, whether directly or indirectly related to business process, revenue stream, or service delivery. Its survival is now entirely dependent on its own business data information — and on keeping it secure.

To remain competitive, organizations must operate on a scale to dominate their business sector, create new, leading-edge products and services, and find new and innovative routes to market. All those requirements depend on (and generate) information. Organizations must also be flexible to ride a shift in business climate, adapt to a competitive threat, or embrace new technologies and then exploit them to remain ahead of the closest competition. This flexibility is indicative of today's mobile community — which constantly generates valuable information that the competition would love to know.

And, this problem isn't confined to businesses. Individuals also must be mindful of what they pass on to third parties. The danger of data loss to both businesses and individuals remains one of the most poignant issues in today's global community.

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