| Travel
Security: Do You Know these 7
Essential Tips
For Protecting Your Data?
TORONTO, December 16 /PR/ - The emerging issues of
identity theft and spyware are elevating the threat of data loss
for travelers. Two Toronto firms are raising the issue of the threat
to user information at airport Internet access points, Internet
cafes and in hotels. They collaborated to publish a list of simple
tips aimed at helping travelers protect their data.
When asked about the risk to the average person’s data, Robert
Gold, Managing Partner of Bennett Gold Chartered Accountants said:
“we found that in a few alarming situations, anyone could
walk up to an open hotel terminal and collect confidential data
from shared drives or install unauthorized software. People need
to understand the privacy and security risks.”
Corporate security expert Claudiu Popa added: “the risk is
related to the value of the compromised data, but the threat really
targets business and individual travelers alike”. He added
that lost email passwords, corporate data and intellectual property
can be compromised by simply forgetting to disable file sharing
or using any infected machine.
Travel Security Tips and other information are available online
at: www.E-CommerceAlert.com and www.InformationSecurityCanada.com
Bennett Gold is a full service firm of chartered accountants with
unique expertise in the areas of online privacy and security. The
firm is a world-leader in WebTrust certifications.
Informatica Security provides Canada’s most complete range
of data security services and corporate solutions since 1989.
For more information contact:
Robert Gold, Managing Partner
Bennett Gold Chartered Accountants
416-449-2249
RYGold@BennettGold.ca
Claudiu Popa, President & Chief Security Advisor
Informatica Corporation
416-431-9012
Claudiu@InformaticaSecurity.com
CO: Informatica Corporation – Information Security and Risk
Management
ST: Ontario
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