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Two Major Breaches Caused By Loss Of Physical Media

renovods — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:10:03 +0000

Shredded hard drives and back-up tapes will tell no tale… Here’s an article highlighting the importance of the need for securing physical information assets…

Jul 14, 2010 | 04:50 PM

By Tim Wilson
DarkReading

Two Major Breaches Caused By Loss Of Physical Media

Online attacks might be getting more sophisticated every day, but two incidents last week are reminding the industry that the loss of physical storage media is still among the most common causes of data breaches.

Recent studies indicate that the theft of physical media remains one of the most common causes of data breaches. Both AMR and the California DHCS have discovered that the hard way.

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