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Recent spate of breaches has past year. Interestingly, these Laptops still loved by
had a positive impact on the often place restrictions on the healthcare professionals
healthcare sector. use of mobile devices in the worldwide – then comes their
workplace, such as blocks on USB sticks!
ECTIVES
Since the loss of child benefit USB connections, cameras on The most popular device used
records by HM Revenue and phones being disabled, or by medical practitioners in the
P
ERSP Customs a year ago, there people not being allowed to UK are laptops, with 62% of
have been two rounds of download information from a survey respondents saying
instructions and guidance to hospital’s network onto a this was the main device they
NHS chief executives about mobile device. 44% of those used. USB sticks came next,
Y the security of data in transit surveyed experienced such at 17% and BlackBerrys or
and data on mobile devices. restrictions in the UK, other handheld devices were
compared with 30% in the US. used by 13%.
SECURIT
The survey suggests these And 6% of UK respondents
have had a positive impact, had mobile devices banned The most common type of
since 65% of security policies totally in the workplace data stored on these devices
have been revised over the compared with 4% in the US. were work contacts, with 61%
of respondents saying they
stored this information. Half
stored corporate data and
personal contact details,
whilst 15% used their devices
for security information such
as passwords, PINs and bank
account details - not so
sensible when many of these
were being stored with limited
security in the first place.
15% stored patient records
and medical images.
Some of the patient
information that was being
stored were “patient
demographics”, “medical
research data”, “diary and
patient records”, “laboratory
and operation procedures.”
However, many respondents
were keen to point out that
they had very little
information of any
consequence on their mobile
devices - so they believed
there was nothing to be
concerned about if their
device was to fall into the
wrong hands.
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