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  Humans Continue To Be "Weak Link" In Data Security

  Posted: March 15th, 2010, 1:46pm CET by CmdrTaco

  Tags:  security  

  ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Nearly 90 percent of IT workers in the UK have said a laptop in their organization has been reported lost or stolen, new research has found. Sixty-one percent said that this then resulted in a data breach, according to the '2010 Human Factor in Laptop Encryption Study: United Kingdom,' a report produced by the Ponemon Institute for Absolute Software."

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