Surveys & Reports

Healthcare breaches are currently on the rise, with more than 91.7 million records breached already in 2015. The average cost of a data breach is highest in healthcare than in any other industry, up now to $5.9 million per breach, but some costs are hard to estimate. Customer churn, for example, or a lower customer acquisition rate. According to new research from Software Advice, 54% of healthcare customers would...

Almost 95% of IT security breaches can be attributed to some kind of human error. They say “to err is human,” and this definitely holds true for IT security. The rise of mobility, of laptops, smartphones and tablets, has resulted in a mobile workforce that introduces new data security challenges. A current area of concern is the use of mobile devices when traveling, which at the best of times...

The Fifth Annual Study on Medical Identity Theft, prepared by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of identity experts, indicates that medical identity theft increased by 21.7%, with an estimated 2.32 million Americans victims of medical identity theft during or before 2014. The outcome of medical identity theft can be wide ranging, from improper medical care to very costly resolutions for consumers. The report shares how both consumers and healthcare...

Gemalto has recently released an updated Breach Level Index, which records information about the records lost since 2013. According to the time of this article, 2.98 billion records have been lost since 2013. For 2014, more than 1,500 data breaches led to over one billion data records compromised worldwide, a 49% increase in data breaches and a 78% increase in data records breached over 2013 figures. The Breach Level Index (BLI) is...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been making cybersecurity a priority in 2015. As part of its cybersecurity oversight, the SEC released observations from recent cybersecurity examinations of broker-dealers and advisors conducted in 2013 and 2014. Likewise, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released its own Report on Cybersecurity Practices outlining current risks and best practices to approach cybersecurity in the financial industry. In its Cybersecurity Roundtable held...