Posts Tagged ‘encryption

Sending an email seems to be a safe and direct activity – you send a message to a specific person at a specific address, and that person receives and opens the message. However, email is not private communication. It is susceptible to all kinds of hacking and snooping, sometimes by your own coworkers, but mostly by others outside of the company.

With the remarkable advancements in technology, consumers and businesses are now provided with a variety of new methods of communication. No longer are the days of using only land line telephones to communicate. We now have sophisticated communication systems that allow us to contact people any time and any place. One form of communication that is becoming a popular choice for individuals and businesses is voice and video messaging.

Computers and the Internet have transformed business practices in a variety of industries. Many companies no longer have to manage the burden of stuffing documents and folders in file cabinets; robust computer hard drives are now storing everything in electronic form, ranging from legal documents to confidential customer information.

Technology has changed business practices in many professions. An increasing number of companies have gone paperless – no more jamming documents and folders in file cabinets; low-cost mass data storage enables practically everything to be archived in electronic form – from sensitive customer data to confidential legal documents.

The Ponemon Institute released a study last June that estimates over 600,000 laptops go missing in U.S. airports every year. In the largest airports, the authors believe 10,000 laptop computers are lost or stolen each week! Medium sized airports account for another 2,000 cases. The study, titled “Airport Insecurity: Case of the Lost Laptops”, goes on to conclude that only about a third of the computers are every returned to their owners. Incredibly, the final tally for lost or stolen laptops adds up to a whopping 630,000, each and every year.