Data Loss Prevention Quotes

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

You no longer can say that inside a company everything is trusted because you could bring in a contaminated device. And it's the same thing with data, because so much is no longer stored inside a company.