I don't know about other people, but I don't keep anything on my laptop.
I simply access the company's network from outside (wherever I may be)
and have access to anything I need.

Why download anything to a laptop if this access is possible?  If I am
on the security list of my company to have certain things, then I get
in.  If not, then I don't.  Is this such a complicated concept?

GT

Graham Kitchen
Corporate Records Manager
Unified Western Grocers
5200 Sheila Street
Commerce, California 90040
Telephone:  (323)264-5200 Extension 4560
Cell:  (323)243-1865
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jones, Virginia
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Raindrip - Armstrong employees personal info stolen
> 
> LANCASTER, Pa. -- A laptop containing personal information on 
> more than
> 12,000 Armstrong World Industries current and former employees was
> stolen last week. ... According to the letter, the laptop was in the
> vehicle of an outside auditor when it was stolen. ... The personal
> information includes: 
> 
> *         Home addresses 
> 
> *         Phone numbers 
> 
> *         Social Security numbers 
> 
> *         Pay
> 
> (http://www.wgal.com/news/9571588/detail.html?subid=22100741&q
> s=1;bp=t)
> 
>  
> 
> It seems to me that, after a number of these incidents in the 
> past year
> or two, someone would wake up to the fact that keeping this 
> kind of data
> on a laptop is insecure.  With the proliferation of external 
> drives and
> flash/thumb/USB drives with gigabytes of capacity, it is much 
> simpler to
> set policy requiring the use of the external drives or removable media
> for sensitive and private data.  Of course those people who "lose"
> laptops will most likely also "lose" smaller media and 
> drives.  But the
> theft of a laptop should not result in the theft of the data.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Ginny Jones 
> (Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI) 
> Records Manager 
> Information Technology Division 
> Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities 
> Newport News, VA 
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> 
>  
> 
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