Techworld: Companies Must Update Security Practice to Handle Portable Media Players

The article outlines five suggested steps for handling portable media players in a work environment:

• Step One – Security Policy - You should introduce removable media into your Security Policy and make sure that everyone on your staff reads and signs the policy.
• Step Two – Education - Inform your employees about security and its implications.
• Step Three – Encryption - Make sure you use a policy controlled software that encrypts data transferred to all external storage devices.
• Step Four – Control - Implement device and executable control solutions that enable you to control exactly what devices can be connected to a system and what executable files can and cannot be run.
• Step Five – Audit and Measure - Ensure that you carry out regular audits to find out who is using removable media.

The full article is available at the TechWorld site.