Source :Government agencies and private companies need to move their focus away from single-point security solutions to more holistic, information-based security, Symantec officials advised.
"Clearly we've moved to a point in time where our customers have to be much more focused on protecting the information itself, as opposed to protecting the PC or protecting the network," John Thompson, Symantec's chairman and CEO, said Thursday at the company's government symposium in Washington, D.C. "While those are necessary components of a protection strategy, they're not the end all. More has to be done."
In recent years, U.S. lawmakers have focused their attention on data breaches and lost laptops, and federal agencies have scrambled to meet requirements for encrypting information on laptops and other mobile devices. On Monday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report saying that only 30 percent of sensitive data on mobile devices at 24 major agencies had been encrypted as of last September.
PC World - Business Center: Symantec: New Attitude on Security Needed
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