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Subject: [ISN] USB sticks still being used insecurely, Ponemon study finds
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2011-11-28 9:20:18
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By John E Dunn
Techworld
25 November 2011
USB sticks remain a big security weakness for UK organisations with many
employees using drives without permission and not bothering to report
their loss, a Ponemon Institute study has found.
The study polled 451 IT staff in the UK from a global total of 2,942 on
behalf of Kingston Technology, finding that 73 percent had experienced
staff use of USB drives without authorisation, with 72 percent
mentioning loss without notification in the last two years.
Only half of UK organisations employed some form of security policy or
technology to these devices, and awareness of the risk posed by them was
to be low in Britain compared to security-aware countries such as
Germany.
Organisations were reluctant to enforce the use of secure drives, with
55 percent of workers using generic drives bought by themselves or
picked up at conferences or trade shows.
[...]
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