Perhaps like no other industry before it, the IT industry has come to thrive on continuous innovation coupled with rapid and widespread product introduction. In the competitive -- at times mad -- rush to be first or early to market key things are sometimes overlooked. When it comes to security, it is impossible to identify every vulnerability, much less foretell just how hackers will try to exploit them. Preventing data loss has taken on even greater urgency in light of the proliferation of portable storage devices -- smartphones and USB flash drives prominent among them.
February 26th 2008