{"id":16975,"date":"2011-11-09T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=16975"},"modified":"2011-11-09T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:48:22","slug":"sydney-australia-%e2%80%93-november-09-2011-%e2%80%93-kingston-technology-the-independent-world-leader-in-memory-products-today-identified-best-practices-and-the-risks-associated-with-a-lack-of-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=16975","title":{"rendered":"Sydney, Australia \u2013 November 09, 2011 \u2013 Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products, today identified best practices and the risks associated with a lack of security policies in organisations using USB Flash drives containing confidential corporate data."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney, Australia \u2013 November 09, 2011<\/strong> \u2013 Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products, today identified best practices and the risks associated with a lack of security policies in organisations using USB Flash drives containing confidential corporate data.<\/p>\n

\u201cData is the DNA of any company and as such, must be protected at all times and handled cautiously and wisely,\u201d said Nathan Su, Flash Memory Sales Director, APAC Region, Kingston. \u201cData on USB devices should be secured and policies implemented to ensure the information is safeguarded, stored, downloaded, and shared with only authorised parties. Failure to do so exposes a company to a host of negative consequences including non-compliance, fines, financial loss and lack of customer confidence and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on Kingston\u2019s extensive market experience and customer feedback, the company identified the top best practices that organisations should follow to promote the use of secure USB Flash drives to protect confidential data. The complete list, Best Practices: Using and Promoting Secure USB Flash Drives in Your Organisation, can be found here.<\/a> Below is a list of a few of those recommendations:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Build an Encrypted USB Plan: Protect & Comply<\/strong><\/p>\n

The best time to develop an encrypted USB plan is before you need to prove you had one ? incorporate secure USB Flash drives and policies into your organisation\u2019s overall security strategy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Identify the Most Suitable USB Flash Drives for Your Organisation <\/strong>
\nSelect the correct USB Flash drive that fits your organisation\u2019s needs. Simple analysis of what your organisation needs and knowing there\u2019s a range of easy-to-use, cost-effective, secure USB Flash drive solutions can go a long way toward enabling your organisation, and your end users, to get a handle on the issue.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Train and Educate\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Establish a training program that educates all employees on acceptable and unacceptable use of USB Flash drives.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Establish and Enforce Policies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institute policies for the proper use of electronic portable storage media including, USB Flash drives. If you don\u2019t have the right policies in place for all to follow, USB drives can potentially be the downfall of your data security strategy. Setting a policy is just the first step, but it\u2019s an incredibly important one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Security breaches continue globally and many are the result of either lost or unsecured USB drives. Last August, the Ponemon Institute released a report, The State of USB Drive Security<\/a>, which interviewed nearly 750 IT professionals and IT security practitioners from global companies based in the United States. The report revealed that while companies understand that employee \u2018negligence\u2019 puts their organisations at risk, many of these same companies do not take the necessary steps to use secure USB drives and set proper policies. The report found that of those polled, 71 percent do not consider protecting confidential and sensitive information on USB Flash drives to be a high priority even though the majority of them feel that data breaches are caused by missing USB drives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The report further uncovered that businesses are still astoundingly lax when it comes to USB security despite recognizing the dangers and negative ramifications. Less than a third of them believe they have adequate policies to prevent USB misuse and, on average, lost 12,000 customer records per organisation due to missing USB drives. Additionally, a staggering number of employees use or have used free and unsecured USB drives from conferences and trade shows, representing a potential security breach in one\u2019s back pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe solutions for securing USB drives and getting employees to support and adhere to the rules and policies should not be complex and expensive, nor should it reduce employee productivity,\u201d continued Terpening. \u201cOur goal is to help businesses close the security gap by bridging best practices with secure USBs and to make it as seamless and simple as possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For more detailed information, please visit www.kingston.com\/secure.<\/a><\/p>\n

About Kingston Technology Company, Inc.<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world\u2019s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Through its global network of subsidiaries and affiliates, Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Taiwan, China, and sales representatives in the United States, Taiwan, China, India, Australia, Vietnam, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.kingston.com\/anz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sydney, Australia \u2013 November 09, 2011 \u2013 Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products, today identified best practices and the risks associated with a lack of security policies in organisations using USB Flash drives containing confidential corporate data. \u201cData is the DNA of any company and as such, must be protected at all<\/p>\n

Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16979,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions\/16979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}