All Entries Tagged With: "Careless Insiders"
Partner and 3rd Party Breach Sources
Partner and other 3rd parties have always been a large risk to a companies data security. The 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report released by the Verizon Business Risk Team gives us an interesting breakdown of breaches that are sourced from partners.
Often, companies look at partner risk from the perspective of “how much [...]
IT Admins 58 times more likely to be the source of an internal data breach
IT Administrators are 58 times more likely to be the source of a data breach than a regular employee and 25 times more likely than an executive.
Data Breach Sources…according to Verizon Business Risk Team
According to the 2008 Data Breach Investigation Report conducted by the Verizon Business Risk Team most data breaches occur as a result of external attacks.
The study is an analysis of 4 years of data security breaches from 2005 through 2008. There were 500+ cases that were analyzed as part of this [...]
Staying Anonymous While Using the Internet
The methods for savvy users to remain anonymous have always been available, but today there are many methods users can use. These methods can also be used to bypass traditional web content filtering, analysis, and other management systems. One popular method includes TOR which can be implemented directly inside the browser making it [...]
Data Breach = Class-Action Lawsuit
In our sue happy society, it doesn’t seem to matter how or why a breach occured. It doesn’t matter if the data was touched, manipulated, or used for any purpose (including fraud). It doesn’t matter if the data was found intact and unobserved. If you have a data security breach of just [...]
Average Data Breach Cost is 6.6 Million
It costs $6.6 million on average when an organization suffers a data breach, and more than $200 per compromised record, according to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute that’s due to be released on Monday. The report, sponsored by PGP Corp., examined the costs incurred by 43 organizations that experienced a data breach. Breaches [...]
Breach Source Trending
View the trending of incidents and records compromised between 2003 and 2008 for the top 5 breach sources.
2008 Financial Services Companies Data Breach Stats
Data Breach Statistics for Financial Services Companies for 2008
Financial Services Companies Data Breach Stats 2000-2008
Financial Services Companies Data Breach Stats 2000-2008