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Story: Protect your mobile devices in any location

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As part of the article, you touched upon the security of mobile devices. This forms a major crux to data security and items such as USB pen drives are extremely easy to overlook. At the recycling end of the spectrum, we know of at least one IT recycler who failed to wipe a pen drive before reselling it, releasing a major corporates inormation into the public domain via a major e-auction site. The control of data doesn't just stop when the IT manager has handed an employee his new kit. The use of employee agreements and contracts to control how business IT is used certainly reduces the release of corporate information into the public domain, but it's implementation can be costly and requires due-dilligence by HR and a co-operation between them and the IT Dept.

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