There are growing concerns about the security of mobile devices such as laptops, PDAs and BlackBerries, and the data that they hold. In a survey of 200 CIOs in the UK, US and Europe, 6% reported that mobile loss or misuse had led to sensitive company data being leaked.
More than half of the CIOs interviewed by the independent research firm Coleman Parkes indicated that technical product data, sales data and customer details are accessible on company mobile devices
CEOs now readily recognize that risk is ubiquitous Also boards commonly accept the tenet that risk management improves business performance. However the benefits of risk management derived by organizations will depend directly on the level of maturity of their risk management practices.
The French government has been targeted by Chinese cyber attacks similar to those reported by the US and UK governments, according to the French daily newspaper Le Monde, citing a government official. “We have indications that our information systems were the object of attacks, like in the other countries,” the Secretary-General of National Defence (SGDN) Francis Delon said.
Earlier this year, a laptop containing salary details, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and phone numbers of some 26,000 employees went missing from a printing firm, which was writing to workers at a major retailer about pension changes. Also, at a large public sector organisation, sensitive information about more than 16,000 council workers was put at risk as the result of another laptop theft. Identity theft is the possible result of such losses.
Job seeker site Monster.com has announced that it has been the victim of a major data theft. Originally it was announced that contact information for more than 1.3 million individuals had been stolen, but the Chief Executive Sal Iannuzzi has now admitted that the figure could be far higher.
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