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Article - Why Companies Lose Private Data
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:25:11 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7980 Lou Washington, Cincom Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Hardly a day goes by without the news reporting some gross breach of security resulting from some idiot mishandling sensitive data. As I see it, there are two culprits at work here, both of which are creating more than a little havoc in the world of data security. First, there is the malicious threat. This involves the intentional and deliberate destruction of or illicit distribution of sensitive data. Second on my list is the threat that comes from our need for convenience. We not only want our data at the office, we also want it at home, on the plane, in the car, at the beach on vacation and virtually everywhere we go. We want nice, transparent security processes that don't cause us any grief and at the same time, we expect these transparent processes to protect our data from any and all threats. To find support for my theories, I recently analyzed 205 cases of security breaches publicly reported over the past 18 months. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 138 million compromised records in 441 incidents over 6 years.
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