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Our report: 20 Essential Steps for Securing Your Confidential Data, outlines the many-sometimes basic-mistakes that companies, large and small, make when handling confidential information.
It also contains the recommended steps to take to avoid a potential information security breach that these mistakes could cause.
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Some shocking facts about data security.
According to the DTI Information Security Breaches Survey 2006, only 1 company in 7 actually encrypts data on hard disks.
The same DTI survey also found that the Metropolitan Police Force had 6,576 laptops lost or stolen!
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According to the DTI Information Security Breaches Survey 2006, the vast majority of companies still rely on weak, static password security.
The same survey found that 60 percent of companies that allow remote access do not encrypt transmissions and as a result are more likely to have their networks penetrated.
TJX - parent company of TK Maxx had 45 Million customer records hacked in this way; even though WEP had been activated.
This was the biggest loss of credit card data in history.
WEP is the wireless security standard.
Currently the world record for cracking WEP, set in April 2007, stands at 3 seconds
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