Being smart about mobile device disposal

The IT-Observer has printed a long-ish release from Pointsec Security on information security. The key to safe (in terms of data security) device disposal appears to be: encrypt, encrypt, encrypt.

The Companies Act in the UK, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US (which a growing number of UK organisations, especially those that trade with the US, are implementing) mandate that high levels of security and compliance are introduced in companies both large and small.

Despite this, recent research has shown that 55 per cent of mobile devices in active use by UK organisations are unprotected.

Three quarters of respondents in the DTI Information Security Breaches Survey of 2006 stated that the theft of a laptop or mobile devices had been their worst security incident - proving extremely problematic, not just in terms of reconfiguring their systems, but the unknown long-term use of the data and public perception of trust.