Data breach notification survey

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

 From clearswift.com press release
http://www.clearswift.com/news/item.aspx?ID=1465

[...]
Results highlights:

78% of IT decision-makers don’t believe the general public should be 
informed if a data breach occurs;
54% of U.S. IT decision-makers are unaware of data breach disclosure laws;
53% are in favor of legislation that would force companies to publicly 
declare a data breach if it occurred; 38% are in favour of legislation 
that would make negligent loss of personal information a criminal offence;
19% of companies have suffered a data loss in the last 12-18 months; 50% 
more than once;
38% of IT managers have seen their annual IT spends increased by as much 
as 10% since data breach notification legislation were introduced.

[...]

While respondents felt the general public did not need to know (78%), 
they did indicate that affected customers and partners should be 
informed (95%) while less than half of them felt that industry 
regulators (42%) or even the police (35%) should be notified.

[...]

All the above figures, unless otherwise stated are from Clearswift. 
Total sample size was 3 340 US IT decision makers. Fieldwork was 
undertaken between March 10 and April 10, 2008. The survey was completed 
online.

[...]




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