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Thursday June 23, 2005 9:49 am

Growing Enterprise Security Threat: iPods





iPodWith the growing number of people who own an iPod or a similar portable audio device, each user has access to a storage device capable of transferring a wealth of information in an extremely portable fashion. The double-edged sword is that it poses a great threat to big businesses where loss of data is as easy as someone just walking in and taking all they want through the computer’s USB port. A lot of people are urging enterprises to disable USB ports or Window’s Universal Plug and Play. Should we really sacrifice accessibility for security? Has security become so bad that we must some day do away with hard drives all together and move to data storage in one central location?

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OMG… Not an IPOD? What ever happend to USB memory sticks?

Frankly if the IT people or end user, don’t have password protection, screen savers that lock users out after 2-3 minutes… then they’re asking for it.


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