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Cisco in its comprehensive stuffy of data leakage trends uncovered several common reasons that lead to data loss. Employee driven data leakage topped the reasons for data loss. Use of non IT-approved applications contributed to about 24% of data loss. The managers admitted that some of their employees tried to gain unauthorized access to restricted locations. Also, the workers allowed non company people to access company specific information.  

Only 50% of the workers take care to ensure that they are not being spied. Several others don’t even consider the security of the environment. The chief security officer of Cisco said that new technology has to be evolved to secure sensitive data.  

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The British government is seriously considering implementing tougher data loss rules.

There have been a number of data losses recently in Britain and the government is pretty serious about this. With new technologies being developed it is becoming important to secure the personal data in both the public and private sectors

As per the new rules the information commissioner would be given more powers to enforce the Data Protection Act. It has also been proposed to increase the fines.

All companies, private or public are expected to show some evidence of their compliance with this new law.

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In the past few months, UK government has faced a number of public data losses. A lot of information related to prisoners, hospitals, personal details of officials has been lost and the government is struggling to find the reasons. These days, the UK government is searching for people to trust with the personal details. Many small and large data loss disasters have badly affected the government. Though many officials were disciplined related to data loss issue, these scandals prove the need for country wide data security mechanism. The prime minister admits that the government is not good at protecting the data and the data breach threat is more as the amount of digital information is expected to double in the next couple of years.  

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