This is sobering information which came across Aunty’s desk today. It pertains to the business traveler (although it could equally apply to those traveling for pleasure), and how with today’s ubiquitous USB drives, a trail of confidential corporate data is often left behind.

The information, put out by security company Keynesis, starts out by reminding us that “You might not realize it, but each time you or your employees travel and use a computer that is not their own, private and sometimes confidential information is left behind. When you open a document from your USB drive a temporary copy is stored on the local drive, when you use the local browser you leave cookies, history of the visited sites and more.”

Do you think about that when you use your USB drive? Are your colleagues aware of the trail they may be leaving?

Does your place of employment have a corporate policy dealing with the use of portable data storage devices? If not…

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