Millions of Tax payers Pounds Wasted and British Agents Lives Put at Risk for sake of Spending Just £40 On a Memory Stick

In yet another embarrassing blow to the Government, it was revealed this weekend that a British spy lost an unencrypted memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details of more than five years of intelligence work in South America.

The irony that this comes in a week when Europe’s number one dedicated Information security event, Infosecurity Europe, takes place isn’t wasted on Grant Gutteridge, Director at the Stonewood Group who manufacture the PICO Freedom, a memory stick designed to keep data completely secure.

The blunder, that has cost taxpayers millions of pounds, put scores of lives at risk and thrown the war against drug traffickers into disarray was entirely avoidable. The technology, he argues, is available and the data loss totally preventable. “It’s scandalous that data loss of this magnitude was able to happen and that the technology is still not being put in place to protect data should it be mislaid, lost or stolen, ” said Grant. The casualness in which the data was managed and handled begs belief.

The PICO Freedom, is part of the Eclypt family of totally encrypted simple to use “plug and play” USB connect drives. The PICO and the larger capacity drive Freedom which has a storage capacity of half a terabyte automatically encrypts data that is stored in it, 100% of the time. It is tamper resistant and password controlled, designed to lock down after a few failed attempts.

Notes to editors: The Stonewood Group, is exhibiting its newly accredited range of encrypted products for the first time at this year’s Infosecurity Europe. BOOTH H 42, 28 – 30 April 2009, Earls Court, London, UK

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