| Pod Slurping..oh gosh! |
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| Friday, 23 March 2007 | ||||
 Pod Slurping is a method of stealing information from a PC and downloading into iPods, USB flashes, MP3 players, PDA drives and other devices with storage capabilities. Improvements in wireless and mobile technology have made personal storage devices become so powerful that they can file up incredibly high volumes of files. This characteristic represent a dangerous vulnerability for companies, indeed when dealing with wireless security they basically focus on laptops or notebooks and they hardly ever consider other perspectives. But in general, these devices rare at risk only if they are used outside the workplace, and in spite of the increasing of incidents of internal security breaches, the main concern is still about external threat only. There’s nothing surprising in it: stealing data from inside a company is quite easy, especially using apparently “innocuous” personal storage devices: the simpler method of extracting and storing information. Just think about i-Pods, that were originally designed to store huge amounts of music files but that could actually be used to file up any kind of data. Companies have to face an ambivalent problem: on the one and the need to provide their offices with modern forms of access to technology, on the other the risk that modern devices could convey a threat for data security. The way out could be to implement a personalized solution for each company that should invest in a double plan, where any technological innovation is associated to a specific security measure. It is very difficult to regulate the use of personal storage devices in offices and it is almost impossible for a company to ban them from workplaces, but there are policies and measures that could be taken to increase a bit the level of security.
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