According to reports in the US media, the survey also revealed that 48 per cent of network managers think backups don't provide complete protection, because data can be lost between backups. Twenty-six per cent of respondents said backups aren't...
McAfee has announced a foray into the increasingly crowded market for products to stop data loss in businesses. McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host, or DLP Host, is a hardware and software package designed to help companies lessen the chances of their...
The UK is in desperate need of revisions to laws that govern the disclosure of information relating to data loss or theft, according to security experts. Currently UK organisations that lose sensitive customer or employee data, or expose it to...
MPs have called for the reckless loss of computer data and personal information to be made a crime but IT industry leaders and legal experts have urged the government to avoid knee-jerk legislation. The committee said organisations should be...
That's the view of more than a third (35 per cent) of readers who took part in the latest silicon.com poll and who believe the punishment for data loss should be much more serious. The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November...
It follows calls by the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas for the criminalisation of reckless data loss earlier this year. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it would consider its position on making data loss a criminal offence following...