Once it’s undone, your files are like a house of cards. Losing an encrypted drive does nothing to help you recover the files, and the enemy can take as long as they want to examine the drive. If the key is compromised you don’t know it and ALL of your files are compromised. Where’s the key stored, where is the key generated? Encrypted files make backups harder than they already are. Tags: data breaches, data protection, encryption, flash drives, military, operational security, secrecy, theft, UKĮncryption is better than nothing, maybe.
Furthermore, he could sneak into my office and copy all this data, and I’d never know it. Today, all he has to do is steal my computer.
#Bright memory stolen assets professional#
Twenty years ago, someone could break into my office and copy every customer file, every piece of correspondence, everything about my professional life. The point is that it’s now amazingly easy to lose an enormous amount of information. I’ve written about this general problem before: we’re storing ever more data in ever smaller devices. Some 26 of those disappeared this year = including three which contained information classified as “secret”, and 19 which were “restricted”.
More than 120 USB memory sticks, some containing secret information, have been lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence since 2004, it was reported earlier this year. Times, locations and travel and accommodation details for the troops were included in files on the device. The USB stick, outlining training for 70 soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, was found on the floor of The Beach in Newquay in May. UK Ministry of Defense Loses Memory Stick with Military Secrets
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