Re: Notebook policy (need advice)

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2007-01-25 Eric Furman wrote:
> I'll give you one very simple policy that you should enforce that will
> make most of your concerns moot:
>
> NEVER EVER EVER STORE SENSITIVE DATA ON A LAPTOP!
>
> Anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, found with sensitive data on their laptop
> should have it seized and they should be immediately dismissed.
>
> There is virtually no reason to ever store sensitive data on a laptop.
> Sensitive data should only ever reside on hardened servers in a
> physically secured server room. If your employees need to work with
> this data there are several means to securely access this data
> remotely.

Just take your average insurance salesman. How do you guarantee that he
has remote access from everywhere he may make a contract?

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