(a) The following table includes the number of lost or stolen devices in the last year (October 2022 to October 2023) from core Defra. Defra’s recording system has only recently started to differentiate between lost and stolen devices. Therefore, these numbers for the last full year have been amalgamated.
Items | Number |
Laptops | 37 |
Phones | 93 |
Other assets (memory sticks and other External storages) | 2 |
Total | 132 |
All departmental IT is fully security encrypted. The departmental security unit records and investigates each reported loss from the Department. If appropriate, the police are invited to undertake further inquiries. Any mobile device reported as lost is immediately and remotely deactivated and the contents deleted.
There has been no data loss or compromise as a result of these losses.
(b) Replacement costs are not broken down for core Defra and its Arm’s Length Bodies. As such, the replacement costs for core Defra only are not held centrally and to obtain this information would incur disproportionate costs.
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