Data loss incidents may increase in 2009

Data loss has been an alarming threat in the year 2008 with about 92 million of lost records. Data loss barometer from KPMG suggests that the number of victims of data loss may increase to upto 190 million in 2009. This number is derived by studying the data loss percentage in the last year. The economic pressures and mobility of data storage devices have created serious threat to the sensitive data.

According to the recent studies, financial sector is prepared to meet malicious data theft attempts while other sectors such as telecommunications and utilities are still under developed to tackle data loss incidents.

Educate yourself about data recovery

Data loss is devastating and the effects are much worse if you have private sensitive information in your computer. Personal or business computer must have data recovery and disk recovery solutions. To prevent data loss and to facilitate data recovery, you should follow safety measures.

Irrespective of the type of data present in your computer, if you have sensitive information, you should spend some time and money to backup the data. When data loss is experienced, you must be patient because data recovery is a time consuming process. If the information in the computer is highly essential, you should not handle the problematic disks. You must seek the help of data recovery experts at the earliest so that data can be restored.

Secure external portable storage solution to prevent data loss

With an alarming rise of data loss incidents, it becomes essential for security from the storage level. Maxtor has introduced a new storage solution named as BlackArmor which is capable of storing data in a highly secure way. Those road warriors and SMBs who are more concerned about the security of their data can now take advantage of BlackArmor storage solution.

The 320GB drive operates at 5400 rpm with secure software that incorporates government grade AES encryption. The drive is light weight and can be connected to a computer using USB port. Though the cost of the hard drive is pretty high now, the security features offered are exceptional.