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Laptop Security: Incidents Listing and Recommendations

Yesterday I posted a new article in the reading room of the Realtime IT Compliance site about the need for securing mobile computing devices and mobile storage media, "Managing Mobile Computing Risks."  Within it you will find a partial (but still pretty lengthy) listing of the laptop theft and loss events I've been accumulating.  There are also several pointers for securing these mobile devices, along with some awareness recommendations.  People are the weakest link in your mobile computing device security strategy; they literally hold security within their hands.  With the increase in incidents involving mobile computing devices, you must educate them about how to protect these devices.

For additional information about mobile computing security, see another article published today on SearchSecurity. 

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 26, 2006 9:11 AM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.