Nextgov

Tougher security standards coming for removable storage devices

A federal interagency group responsible for data encryption policy and acquisition efforts is considering changes to existing technology contracts to incorporate tougher security requirements for ...
Dark Reading

Nearly 40 Percent Of IT Decision Makers Report Unintentional Exposure Of Corporate Data Through Theft Or Loss Of Removable Devices

OAKDALE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a global scalable storage and data security company, today revealed the results of a recent survey of 302 IT decision makers in the U.S. and ...
Network World

Best practices for removable media encryption

USB flash drives, iPods and other portable storage devices are pervasive in the workplace and a real threat. They can introduce viruses or malicious code to the network and be used to store sensitive ...
Defense One

Data-at-rest team takes on USB drives

A crisis in the security of removable media two years ago spurred the Defense Department’s chief information officer to create the Data-at-Rest Tiger Team (DARTT). Then a major malware attack in ...
Computerworld

IT managers see portable storage device security risk

Lenny Goodman, an IS director at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in Memphis, said his company recently found itself dealing with a proliferation of user-owned plug-and-play USB port drives that ...
Dark Reading

USB Devices Still a Threat to Businesses, Kaspersky Finds

In recent years, cloud services such as Dropbox have taken on a larger share of file storage and transfer tasks, but USB devices are still being used around the world and continue to be targeted by ...