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off-topic: repetitive breaches
From: Al Mac Wheel <macwheel99 () wowway com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:41:38 -0600
This is a March 2007 report that I did not notice at the time. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2101733,00.asp Almost seven out of 10 companiesĀ68 percentĀare losing sensitive data or having it stolen out from under them six times a year, according to new research from the IT Policy Compliance Group. An additional 20 percent are losing sensitive data a whopping 22 times or more per year. [...] Ninety percent of the organizations were located in the United States. The good news to come out of the group's survey is that 12 percent of surveyed organizations are losing sensitive data less than twice each year. [..] The most sensitive losses are around customer data, financial data, corporate data, employee data and IT security data, according to the report, titled "Taking Action to Protect Sensitive Data." [..] the leading cause for data loss is user error. Policy violations are the second leading cause, but Internet threats, attacks and hacks only comes in at No. 3. When it comes to how data vanished, lost devices topped the chart, including loss of PCs, laptops and mobile field devices. The second most common channel of data loss was through e-mail, IM and other electronic means. Software applications, including databases and the systems they work on, came in as the third most frequent channel through which data is being lost. [..] The cost on average to notify customers and to clean up and restore data was $100 per record. +++++ Here is summary of the report. You have to join the organization to download the whole thing http://www.itpolicycompliance.com/research_reports/data_protection/read.asp?ID=9 - Al Mac _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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