Work devices are being used for personal needs, including installing personal apps and even P2P file sharing, which carries obvious security risks.
In the past 12 months, 4.6 million UK employees have lost work-related as a result of corrupted and malfunctioning personal devices or cloud services.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) NHS Trust has lost a data cartridge containing 42,000 electronic copies of scanned handwritten Patient Report Forms.
Almost three-quarters of respondents to a survey said that their last data loss incident was down to a spinning hard disk failure.
Data loss is one of the bigger reasons why mergers and acquisitions fail, says a new survey condicted by dedicated virtual data room provider for such transactions, Ansarada.
The government department has received the penalty after the loss of a hard drive, containing information on nearly 3,000 prisoners at Erlestoke prison in Wiltshire.
Spanning and EMC have produced a global poll that's got insights into crucial factors such as SaaS data protection, organisational confidence in SaaS data protection and some of the major concerns businesses have with cloud.
According to the results of a survey which questioned 500 attendees at Infosec 2014, half of security pros run risks with data on the move.
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