Posted on 30 April 2018 by
How much does a data breach cost? So far, $242.7 million and counting if your company happens to be Equifax. That is how much the company has spent since its data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial information for nearly 148 million consumers, according to its latest SEC filing. All because it left consumer […]
Posted on 13 April 2018 by
Break down of the 2017 Breach Level Index stats found: 7,125,940 compromised every day 2,96914 compromised records every hour 4,949 compromised records every minute 82 compromised records every second Last year was a monumental year for data breaches. According to the new Breach Level Index (BLI), in 2017, the number of data records compromised in […]
Posted on 22 November 2017 by
Uber Data Breach Demonstrates Need for Better User of Authentication, Data Encryption, and Faster Disclosure Uber Technologies Inc. has fired its chief security officer (CSO) and one of his deputies for helping to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers stole the personal data of 57 million riders and drivers. On 22 November, […]
Posted on 06 November 2017 by
Gemalto is excited to announce the launch of SafeNet Data Protection on Demand, our new data security-as-a-service platform to help you deliver cost effective encryption, hardware security modules and key management services in the cloud to protect sensitive and regulated data.
Posted on 17 October 2017 by
Given the ongoing growth of data breaches around the world, many businesses have already invested in or are looking into cyber insurance. In 2014, the market saw $2.5 billion in premiums written for insurance policies that cover businesses’ liability in the event they suffer a data security incident. That global premium amount could double by […]
Posted on 04 October 2017 by
Yahoo has revised its report of a 2013 security incident by clarifying that the event exposed every one of its three billion user accounts. On 3 October 2017, Yahoo published an update about an August 2013 security incident that it believed at the time of its disclosure in December 2016 had affected one billion out […]
