Data Encryption for Dummies
The one thing you can never recover from a data breach is … Trust
With the average cost of a data breach at £1.4million… Can you afford to settle for less?
• Data at risk from lost or stolen laptops, USB flash drives through which data grows legs and walks out of the office
• Employees send hundreds of emails every day many of which contain confidential business concerns
• Hundreds of backend data processes that make the business tick
• Data accessed and shared by salespeople, customers, contractors and so on
The consequences of lost or stolen data, and data getting into the wrong hands are always serious, not only in fines, but also in damage limitation costs, loss of confidence, damage to your brand, credibility and shareholder value.
It can happen to any organisation, for example in the case of stolen or lost laptops, the best way to ensure that the only impact is the cost of the replacement hardware is data encryption. However this can often be seen as difficult to implement and manage.
Many organisation’s fear that encryption can lead to other headaches for instance the potential of lost encryption keys, mean that you can’t get at the data on a laptop, even though it is still in your possession.
Nebulas Security in partnership with, PGP, one of the leaders in data encryption, have prepared a Data Encryption for Dummies handbook with tips on how to ensure the safety of the data on your corporate laptops.
