USB sticks still being used insecurely, Ponemon study finds

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3320994/usb-sticks-still-being-used-insecurely-ponemon-study-finds/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
25 November 2011

USB sticks remain a big security weakness for UK organisations with many 
employees using drives without permission and not bothering to report 
their loss, a Ponemon Institute study has found.

The study polled 451 IT staff in the UK from a global total of 2,942 on 
behalf of Kingston Technology, finding that 73 percent had experienced 
staff use of USB drives without authorisation, with 72 percent 
mentioning loss without notification in the last two years.

Only half of UK organisations employed some form of security policy or 
technology to these devices, and awareness of the risk posed by them was 
to be low in Britain compared to security-aware countries such as 
Germany.

Organisations were reluctant to enforce the use of secure drives, with 
55 percent of workers using generic drives bought by themselves or 
picked up at conferences or trade shows.

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