Increasing Criticism of Unsecured, Unencrypted Employee, Customer Data
When Johns Hopkins officials announced this week that a courier had lost nine backup computer tapes containing personal data on 135,000 employees and patients, security specialists were critical, even though the information probably was destroyed without being compromised. The reaction came not just because the tapes were lost, but because they weren't encrypted -- coded so that they could be read only with a computerized key.
Debate growing over data security, Baltimore Sun, February 9, 2007.
