Secure USB Drive

Here are some sobering statistics from a recent US survey of IT professionals.  The leading magazine InformationWeek recently announced the findings of its State of Encryption Survey, which polled the opinions of 499 IT staff. 

Only 14% of respondents said encryption is used across their organisations, and just 38% said they encrypt data on mobile devices.  The main reason for deploying encryption (31%) was to meet regulatory requirements – and there’s a strong reason for this, as 44 US states enforce mandatory disclosure of data breaches, and such disclosure can cost organisations hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The article also makes the point that encryption has to be deployed pervasively to be effective.  For example, there’s little point in only encrypting data on VPNs or e-mail systems, if users can write unencrypted data to removable media devices, which are far more prone to loss or theft.  This is why our secure USB flash drives are proving so popular with both public and private sector organisations – they automatically secure this important vector for data loss.