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Password and Laptop Loss Statistics for your Awareness Files...

There were some interesting statistics in a Rediff India Abroad article today, "It takes 14 secs to crack your password."  Several of them good justification for business leaders to invest in more information security and privacy education for their personnel, and to invest in more information security resources and technologies. 

Some of the stats in the article:

  • "Over 60,000 mobile phones, 5,838 pocket PCs and 4,973 laptops were left in licensed taxicabs in London last year."
  • "Up to one in 10 laptops will be stolen during their lifetime."  See www.juststolen.net for more info.
  • "A Symantec report suggests that an ordinary laptop holds content valued at $972,000, and that some could store as much as $8.8 million in commercially-sensitive data and intellectual property."
  • "A Gartner study warns that the Windows password can be cracked in as little as 14 seconds. "
  • "With less than $100, anyone can purchase password-recovery tools on the Internet."
  • "The Symantec research also reveals that only 42 per cent of companies automatically back up employees' e-mails"
  • "Peter Larsson, CEO of Pointsec Mobile Technologies, says they were able to read seven out of 10 hard-drives bought over the Internet at auctions such as eBay, for less than the cost of a McDonald's meal, all of which had "supposedly" been "wiped-clean" or "re-formatted"."

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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.