Defining
best practice in this field has also required the City of London Police to
develop a model IT governance policy in order to protect information within and
from outside its own network. Over the last five years, the force has taken
sweeping measures to protect its electronic borders and defend the integrity of
its information. In addition to a comprehensive and rigorous IT security
policy, all potential points for electronic data leakage have been
systematically identified and secured.
As well as
safeguards against unauthorized electronic transmission of data, the City of has taken
steps to prevent “thumbsucking” – the unauthorized copying of data on to
portable storage devices. To achieve this it has locked down USB computer ports
on all computers – and not with superglue.