| Trust Digital Newsletter - May 2008 |
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How to protect your company's data Forbes.com, 5/19/08 By Andy Greenberg Enterprise security isn't working. As companies install ever more advanced firewalls and anti-virus software, the outpouring of sensitive data goes on and on. Last year, 446 companies suffered data breaches, up from 312 the year before, losing a total of 127 million individuals' records, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. This year may outpace even those grim numbers, in quantity of breaches if not in volume of records lost: 224 companies lost consumer or employee data in the first four months of this year, a total of 11 million records by the ITRC's count. Read more. Personal Smartphones Pull Double Duty at Work Wall Street Journal (online), 5/13/08 By Roger Cheng Personal smartphones can save small firms a lot of money. But they also can create security headaches. Many employees at small companies use their own devices for work purposes — looking up information on the Web, storing contact lists and sending and receiving email and documents. The practice allows businesses on a tight budget to save money on equipment costs. A smartphone capable of surfing the Web and getting email can cost as much as $500 — money the business doesn't have to spend. And it gives mobile access to company data to employees who otherwise wouldn't have it. Read more. Trouble Ahead: Most Companies Don't Have A Mobile Device Management Plan InformationWeek, 5/10/08 By Richard Martin When it comes to managing the mobile devices used by physicians and staff at her company, LifeLong Medical Care, IT director Betsy Ami chuckles. "There's not really a strategy," she says. While acknowledging that having no system isn’t necessarily the best system, Ami doesn't yet see an urgent need for an overarching policy. The jumble of PDAs and smartphones used by the employees at LifeLong, a group of nonprofit health clinics in the Bay Area, doesn’t contain patient medical records, "so there hasn't been an issue of compliance" in tracking them. Read more. Google Offers Mobile Enterprise Protection Tools InformationWeek, 5/8/08 By Eric Zeman In case you hadn't heard, mobile employees are a threat to your business. A lost smartphone, or a laptop that connects to a rogue network rather than a legitimate one, can open your company to all sorts of risks. To help match some of the threats and one-up VPNs, Google used its Postini acquisition to create Web Security for Enterprise. It really is amazing how few people take security seriously. Just last night I polled a room full of IT execs about what security measures they had in place for their smartphone users. Only four people out of 80 raised their hands. That's 5%. Eep. Read more. Push to E-Health Records Takes Away from Compliance Efforts, Survey Says IT Business Edge, 5/5/08 By Lora Bentley Surveys conducted at this year’s Health Information Management and Systems Society conference indicate respondents are increasingly concerned about security and compliance issues now that the government is stepping up enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Sixty-four percent of conference attendees said user access control and compliance issues top their lists, and a great majority of survey respondents (75 percent) admitted concern about facing a HIPAA audit. Sixty percent said the thought of such an audit drives their security and compliance efforts. Read more. Still want to learn more? To learn more visit www.trustdigital.com or call 1-888-760-9401. |
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