MoD Squad Loses an Unencrypted Laptop Every Other Day

For the past 2 years, the British Ministry of Defense has been on a losing streak. 120 laptops are known to have been stolen, and 220 more went missing one way or other. Most of them did not use encryption.

What else did they lose?

• 593 CDs, DVDs and diskettes
• 215 memory cards
• 96 USB hard drives
• 13 cell phones
• 600,000 records of recruits and potential recruits

In previous years, things were just as bad. Clearly their infosec team should be looking at Follow-Up as a key security Control.