US Navy Realizes that Laptops and External Hard Drives Should Be Encrypted
On July 27 the Department of the Navy’s CIO Privacy Office was notified that a Naval headquarters office had been burglarized, and thieves had stolen a number of laptops and external hard drives. Those devices were not encrypted, and may have contained personal information of government employees and contractors.
“External hard drives are becoming as vulnerable as thumb drives,” said Navy department of the CIO privacy team lead, Steve Muck. “A best practice should be to physically secure them at the end of each work day.”