Check Point Software Technologies says that almost half of people would take useful information and data with them to their next job. It is unlikely that anyone would stop them as three quarters of companies, based on the recent survey, have no security in place to prevent information going out the door.

Banks need to invest in consolidating identity management across the enterprise so that end-users can have a single sign-on across all product systems, channels and locations in order to facilitate and simplify identity management. This is one of the conclusions in a report just published by independent market analyst Datamonitor (DTM.L), “IT Security and the Role of Technology in Retail Banking Security.”

Calum Macleod, European director for Cyber-Ark, says that the Bank of Scotland potential ID theft case - involving 62,000 of the bank's mortgage customers - could have been avoided if it they had employed encryption for their sensitive data.