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During  InfoSec Europe , Secure Computing took a survey of  IT Directors , one-hundred and three of them to be exact, and asked them about their fears. What is it that concerns them most regarding IT security? When asked to pick which was the larger threat, either outsider or insider, more than eighty percent said internal threats worry them the most. Insider threats can come from anywhere, jaded employees, accidental disclosure of sensitive information, and outright criminal theft. Less than one in five directors felt the external threats posed by criminals are more dangerous. So why are these  IT Directors  showing fear? Because according to the survey, thirty-seven percent of them have experienced  data leaks within the past year . Keeping with this data, the directors who took part said that internal security is at the top of their shopping lists. Another item of note from the survey included Email as being identified as the biggest current security risk to...

Self-encrypting drives are hardly new, but that doesn't mean researchers aren't still looking for ways to give those IT folks behind the curtain more ways to lock down sensitive intel. Toshiba just launched a line of self-encrypting HDDs that will "invalidate" the data -- essentially, rendering it useless -- when the laptop connects to an unknown host. IT departments can also use Toshiba's so-called Wipe Technology to scrub a machine before tossing it, or encrypt the drives every time someone powers down. The company won't be peddling these directly to consumers, of course, and in fact, Tosh is planning on shopping them around not just for laptops, but multifunction printers and point-of-sale systems, too. They'll come in five sizes, ranging from 160GB to 640GB, and will all run at 7,200RPM. And Tosh says it'll work with OEMs to help them customize the conditions that will trigger a data lockup. It's too soon to say what laptops will pack this tec...