Councils lack disaster recovery plans 
(17/10/2007)
According to BeCrypt's recent Public Sector Data Security Survey, only 8% of the local authorities interviewed have full disaster recovery plans. In addition 90% of participants also claimed that they do not have special procedures for protecting sensitive data.
Questions in the survey asked what disaster recovery plans councils had in place in the event that employees may not able to get to work and how important mobile working is to the organisation and data security for mobile devices. It also included questions on data leakage and the usage of USB devices.
Richard Brooks Director of Sales EMEA of BeCrypt commented; "The survey provided an extremely useful piece of quantifiable research to assess how public sector organisations are approaching the increasing requirement for mobile working and the challenges that surround it.
"The use of laptops, USB devices and other removable media are posing an increasing risk to data security. The survey highlights that 30% of councils have no policy regarding the use of USB devices and the inadvertent or malicious threat of data leakage. It is evident that such organisations not only require a security policy, but also encryption solutions that enable it to be implemented."
Copies of a white paper discussing the BeCrypt Public Sector Data Security Survey results are available direct from BeCrypt on request
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