2014 Data Breaches by the Numbers (and the Impact)
Posted on 12 February 2015 by
Time changes everything. Unfortunately, in terms of breach occurrences, things didn’t improve in 2014.
Category: Data Breach
Orient Security Around Protecting Data, Not Preventing Breaches
Posted on 18 March 2015 by
“What are you trying to protect?” It’s a straightforward enough question perhaps, but it isn’t very easy to answer.
Data Security Confidence Index 2015 Results – RSA 2015 Preview
Posted on 15 April 2015 by
The new Data Security Confidence Index results highlight perimeter defense spending, how worried IT decision makers are about data breaches, and customer data protection.
RSA Conference 2015: Finally, a Theme with Relevance
Posted on 16 April 2015 by
This post originally appeared on SafeNet’s The Art of Data Protection blog – now part of the Gemalto Digital Security blog. It’s fitting that the theme for this year’s RSA Conference is “Change: Challenge Today’s Security Thinking,” because change is exactly what many corporate security programs need to do if they’re going to effectively safeguard […]
The 4 Stages of Breach Trauma
Posted on 04 May 2015 by
Breaches happen; of course they do. Over the years I have seen organizations suffer both internal and external attacks – from naive misuse of computer systems or contraventions of what constitutes acceptable use, right up to fully fledged attempts at data hacking, fraud or extortion. Sometimes CIOs respond quickly and effectively, accepting responsibility and taking […]
H1 2015 Data Breaches by the Numbers
Posted on 09 September 2015 by
Here’s the good news first: Just released by Gemalto and based on publicly available breach information, the Breach Level Index (BLI) report for H1 2015 shows that the number of data records lost or stolen in the first half of this year – 245.9 million records* total – was down by about 40% compared to […]