Ponemon Institute study polled 451 IT staff in the UK from a global total of 2,942 on behalf of Kingston Technology. 73 percent of staff use of USB drives without authorisation, with 72 percent mentioning loss without notification in the last two years. Only half of UK organisations employed some form of security policy or technology to these devices, and awareness of the risk posed by them was to be low in Britain compared to security-aware countries such as Germany. 55 percent of workers use generic drives bought by themselves or picked up at conferences or trade shows.”]