Business manager

Encryption abilities have been disabled on half of the computers owned by business managers, according to a new study.

In a research paper by Absolute and Ponemon Institute entitled the Human Factor in Laptop Encryption: UK Study, it was found that many workers were willing to undermine data leak-stopping strategies.

Larry Ponemon, the founder and chairman of the organisation studying the phenomenon, said user behaviour was one of the primary reasons as to why data leaks were occurring.

He said the statistics were particularly shocking "when combined with our recent studies demonstrating that lost or stolen laptops are the number one cause of data loss, with three out of four companies experiencing a data breach when a laptop has been lost or stolen."

Yesterday, Brocade revealed that data centre security is still not considered a top priority despite the amount of companies which had experienced attacks on their network servers.