For most people, portable storage devices—be they a thumb drive dropped in a pocket or a smartphone that provides Exchange access along with restaurant reviews—rank at the top of technologies that have improved their lives. But they can be a curse to IT managers because employees often access enterprise data, only to lose it or have it stolen.
“The further you get from the server, the less actual control you have over [data],” says Gary Streuter, vice president of marketing at storage solutions provider CMS Products (www.cmsproducts.com). “You can lock up the servers, but client-side machines sitting out in an office are harder” to monitor, which means an employee might easily download something from his office computer to a USB key without your being the wiser—unless, of course, you keep some of these tips in mind.
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