Orthus, a security company monitoring data leakage, has complete a study that encompasses 100,000 hours of computer usage. Key findings (quoting their press release):
-Corporate data leakage was most likely to occur through mobile devices with 68% of all events identified linked to mobile rather than fixed desktop systems. –Information Technology and Customer Services Departments had the highest incidence of data leakage. -Most incidents of data leakage occur during the extended working day (7-7 Monday to Friday). -The applications most favoured by users to remove sensitive data were identified as web mail, instant messaging (IM) and social networking web sites. -The top 4 data leakage vectors were identified as mobile devices, web mail, removable media and corporate email. –All data leakage incidents identified could have been prevented. Existing corporate security policies were not implemented, monitored or enforced.
