The ability of most people to ignore the elephant in the room knows no bounds. Today’s security elephant has got to be the laptop.
When I ask most executives about laptop use in their companies, they are usually very quick to assure me that they are few and contain no sensitive information. Their employees seldom agree.
I am not sure where this reluctance comes from. Perhaps it is the fear of truly finding out that they don’t control the information in their operations or maybe they believe that securing these pesky little machines is not really possible. Whatever it is, they would rather risk seeing their companies listed on the wall of shame than confront the issue.
In the weeks to come, we will continue to read news about companies who would rather leave it to chance.