Iron Mountain study: More than half of the German Office commuters look her seat neighbor on the shoulder; 14 Percent have seen once-confidential information Hamburg 08 October 2013. Many commuters documents its business on the way to work or on the way back. This sensitive company information are exposed to a significant risk. 1 The archiving and information management service provider Iron Mountain, a study that more than the already once on the shoulder looked half (57 per cent) of the German Office commuters her seat mate, to catch what it is working. More than one in ten (14%) has seen ever-sensitive or highly sensitive information. Looking at the activities of the Office employees, the following picture emerges for Europe: almost one-fifth (18 per cent) of respondents working in the marketing indicates that they regularly take a look at the work of other commuters, who compared with only 6 percent in the Legal industry professionals. Marketing employees also the probability is highest (35 per cent), that they are working on confidential or sensitive business data on their commute distance. Chief Secretaries and administrative staff the probability with 15 percent is the lowest, to edit confidential or sensitive business data in public means of transport. Across all occupational groups, 21 percent of respondents in this exercise to do. Trains and planes: most popular places in Germany include trains (49 percent) and planes (32 percent) among the most popular places to catch a glimpse of other working documents. Especially popular are also departure or bus shelters (21 percent) and buses (20 percent). Surprisingly, ends up the Metro, which particularly closely is to, with just under 10 percent in last place. Not only digital data, but also paper information at risk in view of the increasing trend for business purposes to use mobile devices, are the data on Tablet PCs and Smartphones in the foreground. At the same time also on paper must be protected information to if they are discarded, to be destroyed, thus not restored their contents. For many Office workers, the processing of business documents is necessarily inevitable, on its commuter line, also because they save so that practical time. But commuter business information bring reckless in risk, for example due to accidental data loss,”explains Hans-Gunter Borgmann, Managing Director of Iron Mountain Germany. Most of us have sure ever a look at a document, it is a display of a mobile device or on a document that was left on the seat. In most cases the pleasure is but, because the rider just got out of the car rises or suspends its work, of short duration to food or making telephone calls. Nevertheless companies at this point must be wondering: how much is the loss of Details of the company or how he harms his reputation if an employee discloses confidential and accidentally or if they fall into the wrong hands? To counteract these threats, there are simple and inexpensive measures we put every company in the heart.” Iron Mountain company recommends the following guidelines to help staff, to better protect their confidential information on the way to work or business trips. 1 Staff can provide information: the responsibility that he or she has for information security also outside the workplace, should be made aware of each employee. Clear rules and practical guidelines should be put up here, giving to understand the employees, what behavior is appropriate, to reduce potential risks. These expectations should be communicated regularly to the employees. 2. Devices and VPN secure hold: to ensure a safe working environment to employees who are driving,. should you start first at the terminals provided. Here, strong passwords and encryption techniques are recommended. Also private devices should be included in the course of increasing use of private devices such as Tablet PCs and smartphones in the context of a BYOD (bring-your-own device). 3. Sensitive information with Bildschimfiltern protect: you know this technology most likely by ATM. For laptops, there are also special views protection filters that make it impossible from a certain angle, to see what is on the screen. Employees who have access to highly sensitive data, these filters for their devices should be available. 4. Paper documents attention too often perceived only under IT security aspects of information security. However, are easy to carry paper documents and commuters move with can quickly get a glimpse it in a careless moment. In the worst case, the paper copy will be forgotten and gets into the wrong hands. Therefore, should confidential documents when she are no longer needed are, returned to the workplace or securely destroyed. 1 Opinion matters for Iron Mountain. The survey was conducted between April 15, 2013 and may 1, 2013. Sample: 5,021 working adults in Germany, UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands. Of 1.002 from Germany. On request from essential media (contact see below) also an infographic on this subject is available. For more information about the services provided by Iron Mountain, see: about the Iron Mountain Germany GmbH Iron Mountain offers comprehensive solutions for the management of information. Iron Mountain’s experts help companies to find solutions suitable for them in the safe and lawful storage and rapid availability of their documents and data. Customers will benefit immediately from predictable costs and optimized processes, as well as from the comprehensive know-how of the service provider for effective information management. As worldwide Service partners with Iron Mountain caters both to physical documents as well as digital data over 60 years of experience and covers the entire life cycle of the information thereby from secure storage to destruction. founded in 1951, Iron Mountain has more than 155,000 businesses in North America, Europe, Latin America and in the Asia Pacific region and managed in its archives and data centers of billions of data and information. Worldwide, Iron Mountain employs 17,500 people and posted revenues of $ 3 billion in 2012. 95 Percent of the Euro STOXX 50 companies among its customers by Iron Mountain. In the Fortune 1000 list, Iron Mountain ranked ranked 675. Editorial contact: essential media Karl H. Mayer Landwehrstrasse 61 80336 Munich Tel: + 49 (0) 89 7472 62-12 E-Mail: Iron Mountain Germany Verena g Marketing Executive Hindenburg Street 162 22297 Hamburg Tel.: + 49 (0) 40 52108-182 E-Mail: Web: