Tulsa Offsite Data Storage and Risk Management
Posted by Scott Hambrick on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 @ 01:25 PM
At Data Storage we pride ourselves in taking excellent care of the information entrusted to us by our customers.
Our employees are all long-time employees with a sense of pride in their work (and tons of privacy training). We maintain careful records and audit trails on all deposits in our trust. Our facilities are monitored by state of the art security systems. The facilities are manned around the clock. We routinely change locks and maintain on keys. We require every visitor to the facility to sign in. And on and on and on and on.
In the interest of improving our security and privacy at Data Storage here in Tulsa, I attended a training seminar with my trade association last week that covered the Privacy + certification. My association is PRISM (Professional Records & Information Services Management Association). I took about 20 pages of notes in two days and have digested 100's of pages of handouts and I want to share the biggest/easiest take away tip I saw. Here it is.....
ENCRYPT YOUR HARD DRIVES AND BACKUP MEDIA.
There have been 2,761 data breaches recorded since 2008. Average notification costs are $7.2 million per incident. (Todd Stephenson, CISA Kirkpatrick Price, LLC.)
Most of these breaches involved stolen laptops. Encrypting the hard drives could eliminate most of the breaches and notification costs. It's cheap and easy to do.
ENCRYPT.