One of our visitors has alerted us to a brilliant example of how the healthcare industry is failing to understand and address the risks associated with data loss on removable media devices.
The UK’s ‘Health Service Journal’ is offering all subscribers a free 1GB USB flash drive - so they can access exclusive content from the magazine. We guess no-one at the magazine heard about the recent data loss incidents in Oldham, Stockport and Manchester?
At a time when uncontrolled removable media devices (such as USB sticks and CDs) present some of the most serious dangers to patient confidentiality, the offer from the magazine seems ill-timed at best and downright irresponsible at worst.
And just in case you think it really is too silly to be true, click here.
As our visitor commented: “I the only Information Security Manager who feels he’s swimming against the tide here?”.
No Terry, we share your pain…
