The security policy in the management of storage media lays the essential foundations to protect everything that information liable to be violated and leaked via external devices. Many companies do not take this policy into account because it is common to dispense with including it in a procedure as such., becoming a runaway escape route.
How to protect vulnerable information from external devices
To prevent this from happening, it is recommended:
- Apply measures of copy protection backups in different physical locations, What encryption and archiving sensitive information.
- Determine and control, restricting if necessary, the use of personal devices, such as external drives or USB sticks, among others, by the staff.
- Block certain hardware, through user accreditation systems; or use software that allows us to know if there is an employee who is trying to filter information through means such as email or technologies such as Skype, as an example.
