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Aftermath of a Data Breach
Ponemon Institute, sponsored by Experian®, has released the findings of their Aftermath of a Data Breach study. The study was conducted to learn what organizations did to recover from the financial and...
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Latest NHS Fine for breaching the Data Protection Act is close to the...
After a series of breaches where the NHS organisation involved received nothing more than a slap on the wrist the Information Commissioner is finally ratcheting up the pressure on public sector...
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Consumers express their opinions of Data Breach Notifications
Ponemon Institute have released an Experian® Data Breach Resolution sponsored survey into what consumer think about Data Breach Notifications, titled 2012 Consumer Study on Data Breach Notifications. I...
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Who has breached the Data Protection Act in 2012? Find the complete list here.
So far 2012 has been a busy year for the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and with almost three quarters of the year gone I thought I would look at who has fallen foul of the Data Protection Act....
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Almost 50% of organizations report 10 or more significant data breaches a year
Ponemon have revealed the results of a Co3 Systems sponsored survey into Data Loss Management. Ponemon Institute polled more than 100 influencers in the privacy and data protection community across the...
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The average cost of a data breach is $8.9m in the US and £2.1m in the UK
The results of the Ponemon 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime Study for the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Japan. For the purposes of this post I have summarised the United States and the...
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2013 looks like being a bigger year than 2012 as the ICO starts catching up...
2013 has started as 2012 finished off with UK Information Commissioner (ICO) coming down hard on those who breach the Data Protection Act. So far this January 3 organisations have fallen foul of the...
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Securing Patient data has improved massively but still has work to do
In it’s recent Winter 2013 Newsletter Experian released the details of the fifth annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) which they sponsored. The survey found many areas...
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Nursing and Midwifery Council fined for breaching the Data Protection Act
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a £150,000 fine to the Nursing and Midwifery Council was for breaching the Data Protection Act. The Nursing and Midwifery Council lost three DVDs...
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More Than 12 Million Identity Fraud Victims in 2012, study finds
Javelin Strategy & Research have released their 2013 Identity Fraud Report with some startling results the scariest being “one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter will become the...
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What happens after a data breach?
A report by Solera Networks and Ponemon reveals rise in security breaches, with organisations taking months to detect and contain them. The Ponemon report “The Post Breach Boom”’ commissioned by Solera...
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Survey reveals companies are taking risks whilst outsouring consumer data
Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute survey results identify opportunity for improved data oversight. The study, “Securing Outsourced Consumer Data”, reveals that many...
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76% of companies have had a data breach or expect to have a breach
Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute have released a study that finds that, despite the majority of companies experiencing or anticipating significant cost and business disruption...
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SMEs are putting larger customers at risk of security breaches
According to Shred-it’s third annual Security Tracker survey SMEs in the UK are putting their own businesses at risk and could also be damaging larger firms they supply services to by not taking enough...
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IT Security Still Not Protecting the Right Assets Despite Increased Spending
Most IT security resources in today’s enterprise are allocated to protecting network assets, even though the majority of enterprises believe a database security breach would be the greatest risk to...
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Who breached the Data Protection Act in the first half of 2013?
As we have passed the first half of 2013, I thought it would be a good time to publish the entire list of who fell foul of the UK Data Protection Act and were punished by the Information Commissioner...
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The state of corporate mobile data
The state of corporate data is an interesting Infographic showing the extent data could leak from a corporate network.
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Challenges to maintaining a strong security posture
A very interesting piece of research by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of the security vendor Sophos. A summary of the study is below. Cyber security is often not a priority 58% of respondents say...
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BYOD, Cloud and the Internet are the top areas of concern for security threats.
A Dell global security survey reveals “the majority of IT leaders say they do not view these threats as top security concerns and are not prioritizing how to find and address them across the many...
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Retail and Financial Sectors Overly Confident About Breach Detection
Atomic Research have announced the results of a survey sponsored by Tripwire of 102 financial organizations and 151 retail organizations in the U.K., all of which process card payments. The survey...
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