Majority of companies have lost computers containing sensitive information last year

The Ponemon Institute and Vontu, Inc. have announced the findings of a new study on the issues associated with protecting corporate ‘data at rest’ residing on storage systems and mobile devices, as well as ‘data in motion’ exiting the network via email, Web mail, file transfers and IM. The survey examines risks associated with the storage and transmission of confidential information; technologies, practices and procedures used for preventing data loss; and primary concerns expressed by organizations facing the challenges of protecting stored sensitive data from unauthorized exposure. Among the study’s most significant findings, Internet communication protocols likely to contain unprotected sensitive information, in order of risk level, were secure Webmail (56% probability), file transfer protocol (51%),Webmail (HTTP) (33%), email (31%) and IM (25%).

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