U.S. Energy Department loses nearly 20 laptops a month
Last year we learned that the U.S. Commerce Department was losing an average of 17 laptop laptop computers per month. Now the Energy Department reports 1,415 laptops have vanished between 2001 and 2006, inclusive. That’s 19.6 laptops per month, on average, out of a reported total inventory of 71,874.
The Department claims none of the misplaced hardware had classified information, and only a few had personal or otherwise sensitive data. However, you have to wonder about such claims… if the organization has so much trouble keeping track of physical assets, how skilled are they at tracking information assets, such as what data those laptops had on them?
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