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[...] The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the devices prompted the decision, reported The Register.
Instead, IBM staff who need to move data around will be encouraged to do so via an internal network.
[...] Some IBM departments had been banned from using removable portable media for some time, said Ms Naidoo, but now the decree was being implemented worldwide. IBM staff are expected to stop using removable devices by the end of May.
[...] Security expert Kevin Beaumont said: "It is a brave move by IBM, as USB devices do present a real risk - often it is very easy to extract data from a company via these devices, and introduce malicious software."
[...] Sumir Karayi, chief executive of security company 1E, said IBM's ban was an "overreaction" by security staff who had not realised the many different ways data flowed in and out of an organisation.
[...] On 25 May, the GDPR rules are enacted, which impose heavy fines on organisations that do not do enough to protect sensitive information.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Monday May 14 2018, @06:09AM
Ditto, nothing new except it is now a non-bank and big blue doing it.
Our Data leakage policy is quite draconian and its enforcement is pretty dystopian. Folks get fired for copy-and-paste data from documents and sending it to their private email accounts, the tech to catch data leak is improving every day.
They can't yet easily catch folks printing documents and stuffing it in their undies to take out yet or snapping docs with their private cell phones, but I'm guessing that tech isn't far away to close some of these gaps.