VA gives thumbs down to thumb drives

VA gives thumbs down to thumb drives
(fcw.com) After a series of incidents over the past several months involving missing data, federal agencies are writing policies that restrict the use of mobile storage devices such as thumb drives. At the forefront of that trend is the Department of Veterans

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