Data recovery blog

Data loss has been an alarming threat in the year 2008 with about 92 million of lost records. Data loss barometer from KPMG suggests that the number of victims of data loss may increase to upto 190 million in 2009. This number is derived by studying the data loss percentage in the last year. The economic pressures and mobility of data storage devices have created serious threat to the sensitive data.  

According to the recent studies, financial sector is prepared to meet malicious data theft attempts while other sectors such as telecommunications and utilities are still under developed to tackle data loss incidents.  

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For all organizations, data loss is a serious threat. The enterprises have faced tough challenges related to data breach and data loss in the year 2008. To help protect against data loss and to recover data, Absolute software has developed ComputraceOne. This software can be used in laptops to prevent data loss.    

Mobile devices are under high threat of data loss because of the increased mobility. In case of lost or stolen mobile devices, ComputraceOne helps recovery of data present in those devices. In case recovery is not possible, sensitive data can be triggered to be self destructed with the use of this software. Bracknell Forest Borough Council has successfully used this software and prevented several data loss incidents.

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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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