Data security should be the very top priority when senior executives handle – and travel with - highly sensitive information, says Paul Norbury, CEO and Managing Director of specialist technology company, Cardwave Services Ltd.

His comments come after a national paper reported on 17 February that a senior health and safety executive had lost an unencrypted USB device containing a secret report on a nuclear power station.

‘This is the latest in a string of high profile data losses and their...