Sunday 26 April 2009

Lost business laptops cost the company an average of $50,000 each

A new survey has attempted to quantify the average cost of lost business laptops.

In a survey covering 138 seperate lost laptop incidents losses were calculated using several factors including data breach cost, loss of productivity, investigative costs and other variables.

The minimum damage in the survey was $1,200 and the biggest loss was just short of $1M!

London workers will sell company secrets - for a price

One in three London workers (out of a survey of 600) said they would be prepared to sell their company data and information for the right price.

The amount of access they have is a real eye-opener. Levels of access include; customer data bases (83%); business plans (72%); accounting systems (53%); human resources databases (51%); and IT admin passwords (37%).

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