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Half of UK firms lack handle on security breaches
News Just under half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches they have experienced in the past year, according to research by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Last April, a PwC survey found that companies should not blame...
[October 15, 2009, 15:29]
BCS: Gov't data breaches have eroded public trust
News The British Computer Society has criticised the government, claiming its high-profile data breaches have eroded public trust. Of the 1,025 respondents, 66 percent said their trust in government departments had decreased due to information breaches...
[April 30, 2008, 12:11]
Memo reveals multiple breaches of ID card database
News The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Department of Work and Pensions, were revealed in a DWP memo to housing benefit and council tax benefit staff on 15 January. In the DWP memo, the government department said...
[February 25, 2009, 15:59]
Data breaches cost an average business £1.4m
News In a report, released on Monday, the researchers received responses from 21 UK-based companies who had suffered information breaches in 2007. Breaches included in the survey ranged from fewer than 2,500 records to more than 125,000 records lost...
[February 25, 2008, 15:37]
Counting the costs of email & web security breaches
White Papers Understand the costs of email and web security breaches to your business. MessageLabs brings you this FREE White Paper for business owners and managers of small to medium sized enterprises. Drawing from the experiences of four MessageLabs clients...
[September 5, 2007, 19:26]
Companies urged to tell customers of data breaches
News More than four-fifths of UK consumers think companies that suffer data security breaches should let their customers know, according to a recent survey. UK companies should warn customers if their personal data has been put at risk, according to the...
[July 17, 2007, 14:31]
Security breaches drive customers away
News These organisations reported that many of their existing customers had taken their business elsewhere because of these breaches, and that the customers that remained were spending on average 4 percent less with them.
[May 5, 2004, 17:45]
Data Breaches - The Real Challenge and Solution
Talkback These data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture. As CIO, I'm always looking for ways to help my team, business teams, and ad hoc measures of various vendors, contractors and interal team members.
[October 13, 2008, 18:04]
IPS dismisses 14 staff for data-protection breaches
News In 2007-08, IPS disciplined eight people, of whom seven were fired, for data-protection breaches. It is disturbing that so many Home Office officials have been sacked or reprimanded for data-protection breaches — this from the department that wants...
[November 3, 2008, 6:49]
Preventing Data Breaches in Privileged Accounts Using Access Control
White Papers Week-after week there are disturbing, déjà vu-like stories of significant data breaches, arrests connected to insider attacks, or investigation reports emphasizing the necessity to control privileged accounts that hold highly sensitive data.
[October 16, 2009, 0:00]
How to Achieve Compliance With Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Protection Clauses and Protect Against Data Breaches
White Papers With the severity of recent data breaches, anxiety in the security and compliance community has reached a new high. Questions are being asked about what it means to be PCI compliant, particularly in the context of protecting data from data breaches.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Should companies care about privacy breaches?
Talkback What kind of stupid question is "Should companies care about privacy breaches? Of course they should, just like factories in the 1890s should have cared about 10-year old workers losing arms in machines.
[July 2, 2006, 18:33]
Security Solutions to Minimize Risk of Breaches of Personal Information
White Papers Accordingly, most enterprises operating in states that have breach reporting laws recognize the need to prevent security breaches that necessitate reporting and may potentially damage their reputation.
[January 11, 2007, 0:00]
Employees blamed for SME security breaches
News IT managers in small and medium-sized businesses blame their fellow workers for online security breaches — despite the fact many SMEs still don't enforce web-usage policies. More than a quarter of European SME IT managers said they believe company...
[August 24, 2007, 8:51]
What about breaches in government entities?
Talkback It's quite clear that breaches of data involving government databases (eg Social Security, NHS etc) are also at least as sensitive as phone and bank records, so why are these also excluded? Of course being a true government entity the EU will do...
[January 30, 2009, 12:14]
PGP platform tackles data breaches
News PGP Corporation, best known for its encryption platform, is targeting the ongoing problem of data breaches through mobile devices with a new system called 'PGP Endpoint'. The platform is aimed at addressing the difficulties experienced by...
[July 22, 2008, 15:44]
Data Breaches - The Real Challenge and Solution
Talkback Data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture - and people aren’t getting the training they need. I like to pass along things that work, in hopes that good ideas make their way back to me.
[January 21, 2009, 16:18]
Foreign Office reports five data breaches since 2007
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has reported five significant data breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office in the last financial year. The losses, affecting less than 188 people in total, were disclosed within the department's...
[August 4, 2008, 8:59]
Should companies care about privacy breaches?
News Large companies do not have an economic incentive to prevent privacy breaches occurring, according to researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities this week. The researchers studied 78 breaches from 2000 to 2006 in publicly traded...
[June 30, 2006, 16:45]
Data Breaches Happen Far Too Often
Talkback Insider data breaches like these rear their ugly heads far too often, and it’s important for enterprises to ensure that they aren’t simply trusting their employees to do the right thing, but also utilising automated preventative and detective...
[November 19, 2009, 9:32]
