When businesses entrust highly sensitive information to their consultants, a best practice is to preclude the consultant from storing any of the information on its laptop computers. The risk is simply too great a compromise of the laptop will lead to the business being featured in yet another front page story involving data loss. In such cases, appropriate protections should be included in the companys agreement with the consultant to ensure data is adequately protected and the risk of unauthorized access minimized: USB ports, CD Drive, and other ports on the laptop should be disabled.”]
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