What Makes a Great Team Member? This is so true! Our project management team, and some other people I know fit this description pe...
Remote Endpoint Security Results
Share This -
I was reading an article today that referenced some survey
numbers completed my Check Point Software. For those who don’t know, Check
Point is a leader in providing network security solutions.
According to this
survey, a shockingly low number of organizations protect their remote workforce
with any type of hard disk encryption; in total only 27% of their respondents
say they used hard disk encryption to protect organizational endpoint data. It
also showed that of the surveyed originations only 9% use any type of
encryption on removable devices, like flash drives. And on top of this the study
also showed that 40% more organizations had remote users connecting to their
networks, and this number will continue to rise as remote workplaces become
more popular. This of course makes the number of vulnerable machines multiply at
the same rate as expansion.
As we have all seen in various news events, many people have
issue with keeping their remote machines safe. If any of the 77% of these laptops
are compromised, a large amount of important data can and will be exploited for
a number of purposes.
Some modestly good news from the survey indicated that ~47%
of these organizations planned to implement some sort of endpoint protection. However,
of these only 24% indicated interest in implementing further endpoint
encryption and only 49% indicated personal firewall deployment. While
anti-virus solutions are highly implemented (90%) they are far from a final
solution to maintain the security of this information. A comprehensive solution
must be implemented to make sure that these machines are secure from all entry
points both physical and virtual.
My recommendations to all of my clients is to store all
information which is vital in encrypted form, whether through a mechanism like
PGP, encrypted file system (EFS) or through disk level encryption. This data is
by far the easiest to access and if left in an unencrypted format can quickly
and easily be used for the thief’s purposes. I put forward that this
recommendation be taken seriously by any and all organizational management.
-sean
Comment on this article
Only registered users can write comments. Please login or register.
