Surveys & Reports

According to the fourth annual Patient Privacy and Data Security report compiled by Ponemon, data breaches in 2013 went down slightly, but the real change comes in the 100% increase (over 2010) in attacks on healthcare systems. Given the rise in the value of healthcare data to criminals, with a $50 street value for medical identities (over $1 for a SSN), it is not surprising that criminals are being...

Absolute Software just released the results of the 2013 Mobile Enterprise Risk Survey for the UK, which mirrors many of the same findings in our US Mobile Enterprise Risk Survey, also released today. The survey reveals that many UK employees place a very low value on the corporate data on their phones, a mistake which could lead to data breach fines in the millions of dollars in the event...

Absolute Software just released the results of the 2013 Mobile Enterprise Risk Survey, which polled workers in companies with 1,000 or more employees who use mobile phones for work, touching on companies in a variety of industries on the state of BYOD, security awareness and compliance. The survey showed that employee attitudes towards mobile security is introducing an unnecessary amount of risk into the enterprise. In our US survey,...

The Enterprise Device Alliance, of which Absolute Software is a member, is currently polling IT professionals about managing mobile devices. In its 3rd annual survey of IT professionals, The Enterprise Device Alliance aims to gather information about how IT administrators are deploying and managing smartphones and tablets. The survey looks into the growth in the number of devices, the impact on IT of managing mobile devices, the barriers to broad...

Absolute Software’s recently released 2012 Endpoint Security Report details device theft insights from the 12,705 investigations we completed in 2012. As the first company to offer remote data delete technology, we monitor the frequency and size of data delete requests which continue to increase year over year. In 2012, customers performed 6,442 data delete commands, up 35% from the 4,812 commands in 2011. In addition, Absolute Software executed 401 successful file retrievals, a...