No classified data on misplaced USB stick: Defence

14.03.2011

The incident was a good reminder for other organisations to revisit security policies, examine how they would manage the loss of a USB stick and understand what sorts of data was presently on staff USB sticks, Turner said.

"For most organisations, I bet they wouldn't know [what is on staff USB sticks]," he said. "Partially because they wouldn't have sufficient logging to know where the data had moved and partially because the staff would be too embarrassed to report the loss internally."