How to Protect Computer Data

“How to Protect Computer Data” was published in The Hartford Courant on September 19, 2007, discusses the failure of the State of Connecticut to adequately protect information entrusted to its custody and measures it could have taken to significantly reduce the impact of the loss of a notebook computer containing personal information regarding more than 100,000 of its citizens.

Sufficient care must be taken by both the private and public sectors to protect all information with which they are entrusted.

The solutions offered in “How to Protect Computer Data”, are not meant to be the end all solutions but are intended to illustrate that not even the most basic of information security controls were implemented.

Adequate protection of sensitive information can only be accomplished through analysis and implementation by those professionals trained in the discipline of information security which, clearly, the State of Connecticut failed to accomplish.

One of the solutions offered in the article, LocatePC, can prove challenging to some to implement.  A document providing detail relative to its usage, “Implementation of LocatePC ” is available.

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