Olympic season is here! The world is keeping its eye on London, where the 2012 Olympics open this Friday. There are other people, however, keeping their eyes on you and your digital devices. According to Venafi, a provider of IT security, an estimated 67,000 phones will be lost or stolen with at least a third of those being smartphones. The amount of data loss with this estimate is a staggering 214 terabytes! This figure isn’t including potential loss or theft of laptops or tablet devices.
According to Gregory Webb, Venafi’s VP of Marketing, “There’s been an explosion of corporate data available to users from their mobile devices. This is a real danger and one that is often overlooked[.] People don’t consider or take action to protect the vast volumes of information they carry and have internet access to. With the ever-shrinking boundaries between work devices and work-enabled personal devices, lost or stolen smartphones and other mobile devices that fall into the wrong hands place companies and business data at tremendous risk.”
Now is the best time to start thinking about your critical data and what you can do to safeguard it. At IDrive, we pride ourselves on our secure universal backup services. Backup all of your PCs, Macs, Android, and iOS devices all into one account, so you never end up without critical data in the unthinkable happens.
IDrive (Online Backup) is available as a free download in the Apple App Store and in the Android Market. Using our app, you can back up contacts, photos, and videos directly from your iOS or Android device! Since data is stored in the cloud, it can be restored later with ease.
Those interested can create a free IDrive account and store their first 5 GB at no charge. IDrive Online Backup is available on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android.
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