Data Breaches

With 2016 nearly behind us already, we’re starting to see some patterns in data breach trends that are rather concerning. One such pattern has been the consistent increase in data breaches affecting the education sector, up 39.6% over the same time period in 2015. The education sector has seen the largest percentage growth in data breaches in 2016 so far, followed by businesses and medical / healthcare organizations. Breaches...

Security is not a black and white matter: there are vast shades of grey that exist in even the most well-thought out security architectures. APTs, zero-days, exploits, vulnerabilities, IoT threats, and the ever-present threat from an organization’s own users, all pose significant amounts of risk to your assets and the invaluable data stored on them. Not that many years ago, security was seemingly much easier – park a stateful...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just announced the release of Data Breach Response: A Guide for Business, a detailed guide on how to respond to various breach scenarios and whom to notify in the event of a breach. FTC versus LabMD Earlier this year, the FTC overturned the Administrative Law Judge’s ruling in the FTC vs LabMD case, essentially re-asserting its authority as the Federal agency responsible for...

We’ve posted many times about the importance of having a data breach response plan in place. Indeed, the FTC just released its own guidance on data breach response. A new study, however, demonstrates that “having a response plan is simply not the same as being prepared,” particularly if that response plan is not kept up to date. New Ponemon Survey Ponemon surveyed 619 executives and staff employees who work...

Companies are haemorrhaging data from the endpoint, and there is no single, clear cause behind this steady flow. According to a new survey by NetEnrich, Corporate IT Hounded by Mobile Security Concerns, 42% of IT pros said their organizations suffered key corporate data loss from a mobile device.