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COMPETITION
3M privacy filters are an essential
accessory for mobile professionals
that can help protect valuable
company data from prying eyes.
Micro-louvres within the filter ensure
that a notebook or smartphone screen
can only be read when viewed head-
on – anyone trying to read it from the
side sees only a blank screen.
At a time of growing concern
about data security and the risk of
significantly higher fines when GDPR
rules are implemented next year,
3M privacy screens help protect
important data from visual hacking,
whilst demonstrating a company’s
commitment to the safeguarding of
customer and corporate information.
3M privacy filters won’t just thwart
shoulder surfers in cafés and on trains
– four out of five mobile workers
questioned by Ponemon Institute have
caught strangers trying to read what’s
on their screen. They also help prevent
visual hacking within offices, whether
planned or opportunistic.
Visual hacking
The need for privacy filters is clearly
demonstrated by a recent Ponemon
Institute experiment in which a white
hat hacker posing as a temporary office
worker roamed the offices of companies
in eight countries on the look-out for
valuable corporate data.
In 91% of instances, the hacker
successfully stole sensitive information,
such as confidential/classified documents
and employee login credentials, by
reading or photographing data displayed
on a computer screen or by removing
printed documents left on a desk or
printer.
Just over half (52%) of the sensitive
information collected was read from
unprotected computer screens.
Worryingly, the hacker went
unchallenged in 68% of incidences, even
when using a smartphone to capture a
picture of someone’s screen.
Privacy controls
To counter the security risks identified
by the Ponemon Institute study, 3M
is advising businesses to make better
use of privacy controls, including
password-protected screensavers, clean
desk policies, shredding procedures
and privacy screen filters.Where such
measures were in place, there was a 26%
reduction in successful hacks.
3M offers a broad range of privacy
filters based on its micro-louvre
technology, including models for desktop
Business Info
and 3M are giving away iPhone privacy
filters to 50 lucky readers.
Win a 3M privacy filter
for your Apple iPhone
PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones.
For more information about the
range, please visit
/
privacyfilters.
Win a smartphone filter
For your chance to win one of 50
iPhone privacy filters being given away
by
Business Info
and 3M, please email
by July 10. Use the
subject line ‘
3M Privacy Filter
’ and don’t
forget to include your name, company
and contact details and whether you
have an iPhone 6/6s/7 or an iPhone 6
Plus/6s Plus/7 Plus.
Names of the winners will be
published in a future issue.
