Data loss

• Define, educate, prevent: Avoiding data loss is easier than you may think

  Most organizations believe they aren't in danger of losing data, but as recent news demonstrates, the threat is real and no organization is immune.

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  Toshiba feature wipes data when hard drives turned off

  Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down.

• Data loss a mystery for many businesses

  Despite the increasing awareness of penalties and the damage that losing personal data can do to corporate reputations, network security executives are getting less certain that they can figure out if personal data has been compromised when corporate...

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  Zurich promises encryption after massive customer data loss

  Insurance giant Zurich has promised to encrypt and closely monitor the movement of customer data, after losing the details of 641,000 customers on a backup tape over a year and a half ago.

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  T-Mobile data was not taken by hacking, company says

  T-Mobile USA data that was posted to the Internet over the weekend is genuine, but the company was not hacked, the U.S. carrier said Tuesday.

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  2009: The year your data died

  For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed, and all the rest may have to move over. This is rapidly becoming the Year the Data Died.

Whitepapers about data loss

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  Delivering Information Governance

  The rapidly expanding field of Information Governance, encompassing all aspects policies, processes and controls of the effective management of information within an organisation, has at its heart a requirement to understand the information that is travelling within it in order to adequately protect it. In this whitepaper, we look at the next generation of Data Loss Prevention solutions, and how they operate within a set governance framework.