Your Customers’ Information In The Palm Of Your Hand

People are pretty excited with the news from Apple about the new iPod Touch and refund for $100 for those that bought the iPhone. However, I haven’t seen that many people mention the updates to the classic iPods. In case you didn’t know, you can now buy an iPod that can store up to 160 GB. I’ll let that sink in for a moment…

Ok. Are any of you security minded people worried? If my job involved data security, I’d be a little concerned. I’ve mentioned the dangers of portable music players before. Unfortunately, most security articles, such as here and here, mainly talk about USB drives. I did come across one that mentioned iPods as a risk. Like, some of the people quoted in this particular article, I agree that blocking USB drives isn’t really practical. Informing your fellow employees of acceptable use is the direction I would go in. But hopefully, we won’t be reading about a lost iPod containing databases of customer information. Losing a laptop or backup tapes is bad enough.