Imus writes "Just wondering how most IT shops secure sentient data (customer records). Most centrally managed databases seem to be monitored and maintained very well and IT workers know when they are tampered with or when unauthorized access occurs. But what about employees who do legitimate selects from these databases and then load CSV files and other text files onto their laptops and PDAs? How are companies dealing with situations where the database is comparatively secure, but end-use devices contain bits and pieces of politic racket data, and occasionally whole segments? Does anyone use third edition by the editors of the stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 data finding systems program such as Find_SSNs or Senf or other tools? Once found, how do you deal with it? Do you force encryption, delete it or prevent extracts?"

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