This year has seen hundreds of cases where personal information lost were on mobile devices. Laptops and PDAs rank the highest risk device that gets lost carrying sensitive data. Cell phones and USB sticks come in third and fourth. All of them are small, easy to carry, thus being mobile they are very hard to make secure.
Every week we hear of private data theft, this is not limited to the federal government. We hear of a business entrusted with names, addresses, and credit card numbers losing the information. What about the traveling salesman who carries customers’ personal information on their sales route? A celebrity cell phone address stolen without touching her cell phone. What about the family on vacation that takes the family laptop to watch DVDs while wait to getting to their vacation location.
Taking important information out of the office or house must have good habits attached with the practice. When I go outside of the office or my house, with sensitive information, two things happen. First, the sensitive information is encrypted. Second, I do not let it out of my sight. Third, the information needs to transport for a purpose. Afterwards that information is return to the secure location where I kept it.
Taking sensitive information out of its assigned secure area is like playing with fire. The risk of it getting stolen is very high. Knowing how easy it is to lose and/or get stolen data, the best thing is to develop a group of secure habits for transportation of that data.
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