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We are bombarded with new technologies every year. It seems like everything is getting smaller, faster, and comes with a thick instruction book on how to run it. The new technologies allow new and unique ways for thieves to find and collect information.

However, one of the most common, low tech ways that thieves find information by stealing a company’s laptop computer from an employee. From an article by Small Business Trends, stolen or lost laptops are one of the most common methods that thieves use to find confidential information.

The article goes to say that you should use some sort of encryption software. That way, even if someone finds or steals your laptop, they will have a hard time making it readable. If you have encryption software on your laptop, it will more or less make the information on it unusable to anyone trying to view it.

So, even if a thief uses a low tech method in acquiring your company’s sensitive data, you can use some form of high tech to protect it.

In a recent survey sponsored by Reconnex Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based vendor of data loss protection appliances, 85% of the CIOs questioned said they did a good job of identifying intellectual property, and 74% said they were doing a good job of securing all their information which was classified as intellectual property. While these survey results are promising, the actual ability of these CIOs to protect their classified information is not as good as they think. Most of them are still using internal, manual monitoring techniques to try and protect their data. The problem with these techniques is that as the company expands, they have to continually hire more people to keep up with the increasing volume of confidential information. They also don’t have the manpower to search all the possible sources of information leaks, often having to settle on monitoring only a few of the most obvious ones. The best way for a company to truly be protected from information loss is to implement a comprehensive automated monitoring system that has the ability to scale with the company as it grows.

Most of the time, companies don’t even realize it when they are at risk for information loss. The threat of losing confidential and proprietary information on the web is still so new that many companies have not implemented procedures and best practices to ensure that their intellectual property is safe. We have just launched a free quiz that companies can take to find out if they are at risk or not. If you are interested in learning more about what your company can do to protect its information, contact us today for a free assessment.

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