SanDisk - Flash Drive Use Underestimated In The Enterprise
Friday, April 11, 2008
According to SanDisk about 77 per cent of surveyed employees use flash drives at work. When corporate IT leaders were asked to estimate the number of employees they thought used personal flash drives, on average they said only 35 per cent.
Respondents also said that data they were most likely to copy onto a memory stick includes customer records (25 per cent), financial information (17 per cent), business plans (15 per cent), employee records (13 per cent), marketing plans (13 per cent), intellectual property (6 per cent) and source code (6 per cent).
The survey indicated that approximately one in ten end-users reported finding a flash drive in a public place. When asked to pick the three most likely actions they would take if they found a memory stick in public, 55 per cent said they would view the data.
GadgetTrak protects flash drives by both enabling “good people” to get in touch with the owner of the device, as well as track the devices down when they are accessed.
Source: The Register
