Week 3 Reflections

This week we covered the concept of data at rest which is a term that can often refer to data stored on media devices such as laptops or external hard drives.  Reading more about this subject led me to learn that a large portion of data breeches occur from outside forces gaining physical access through a lost or stolen laptop rather then any actual hacking or encryption break.  This makes the idea of internet security funny in a way when the image portrayed in the movies as expert hackers making their way into secure systems when the truth is closer to the Apple employee who left the Iphone concept in a bar.  It is interesting to think that a lot of problems for data loss occur because of human error or simple mistakes rather then an actual malicious "hack."