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Usability critical for good mobile security

Posted on April 23, 2008 by dtramontana

he consequences of a data breach can be far-reaching and complex, but in almost every case the cause is simple. An employee, the ‘average user’, has either taken a shortcut around the security procedures or lost a device with critical data in a public place, or both.

Randy Sutton of Ottawa’s Elytra Enterprises asks, “How many laptops got lost this week? How many have been stolen? We don’t hear a lot about it in Canada, particularly in the government, because nobody wants to report it and there’s no legislation forcing you to report.” Sutton keeps a list he calls ‘theft a day’ and it’s a rare day when he can’t add another breach somewhere in the world that’s made the news.

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