Most companies now retain nearly all their confidential, sensitive and business critical information in electronic form. This usually resides on corporate servers and on the internal drives of corporate desktop and laptop computers used by employees and contractors of the company. This information can take the form of corporate strategy documents, business plans, employee files, customer lists, financial records, management accounts, client files and building security data. The list is potentially huge.
As the information is stored digitally it is easily copied or transferred to any digital device capable of receiving it. Nearly all organisations use Microsoft Windows XP and because nearly all mobile devices are compatible with this operating system the digital data can be copied with great ease and speed.
