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Outrage is not the only thing that is mounting. Coupled with an almost weekly litany of new major breach announcements are the rising cash costs associated with data insecurity. Organisations must quickly learn to protect data on mobile devices, both to assuage customer concerns and to control fallout to the bottom line. By using the protective technology of encryption, organisations can derive an actual "return on investment" thanks to eliminating risks of lost or stolen data.
Avoiding Financial Risks of Information LossAccording to a chronology of data breaches maintained by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, personal information of more than 84 million Americans was exposed during the period of February 2005 through May 2006. The cited cause often was a lost or stolen laptop PC or other portable device.
In almost every instance, full disk encryption would have protected those data from exposure even though their "containers" slipped past a boundary of physical control. Encryption is the last resort of protection because it obscures digital files and makes them unreadable to unauthorised people.
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