More companies than ever are taking a proactive approach to data breaches; our second annual data breach preparedness study, conducted by Ponemon, found that 72 percent of polled companies had a data breach response plan in place, a 5 percent increase from the year before. Experian Data Breach Resolution...
Employees: A Data Breach’s Hidden Victims Headline-grabbing data breaches have raised awareness of the devastating impact data loss can have on the affected consumers and the breached company. Hopefully, stories like the SONY and Anthem breaches have inspired your company to step up its data breach preparedness and prevention...
There’s no shortage of frontiers in the world of data breaches, with new avenues expanding each year. Watch our short video to hear what top threats industry experts foresee for 2016, ranging from political campaigns to healthcare and more. To hear full predictions, stay tuned for more dialogue between...
Remember how you felt as a kid when the fire alarm rang in school? Your heart raced, adrenaline surged through your body … and you left your seat, got in line and filed out of the building calmly and efficiently because you’d practiced, practiced, practiced what to do in...
The EMV liability shift went into effect, 62% of companies reported experiencing payments fraud and nearly 120 million records were exposed in healthcare related data breaches. The year is drawing to a close and many of the predictions Experian Data Breach Resolution made for 2015 came to fruition. As...
You need only watch the headlines about data breaches to realize how different each one can be. Some trace their source to a careless or disgruntled insider, some compromise thousands of records of especially vulnerable consumer groups, and others go on for months before they’re detected and stopped. Every...
An effective data breach response plan isn’t just about protecting your business from lawsuits or regulatory penalties; it also impacts customer experience, and customer experience is directly tied to revenue. That’s one of the key premises underlying the newly released Forrester Wave report on Customer Data Breach Notification and...
As a business manager savvy to security risks, you may be well aware of the costs consumers and businesses incur when personal identifying information (PII) is stolen in a data breach. But once the information is taken from your system, do you know what happens next? Do you understand...
A data breach can increase a consumer’s risk of falling victim to identity theft. In order to mitigate this risk, federal and state governments have instituted regulations regarding the notification of affected consumers. But many consumers – inundated by news of mega breaches – may experience data breach fatigue,...
Your employees are your greatest asset, but they may also pose the greatest data breach risk to your organization. Unfortunately, multiple studies and research point to employees as the leading cause of data breaches. Employees may put your data at risk in a number of ways; from failing to practice...
Who are behind cybercrimes? When it comes to these thieves behind computers, not all perpetrators are the same, and how they ply their attacks can vary greatly, too. To effectively protect your organization from cybercrime, it’s vital to understand the many ways in which it occurs, and the many...
While there is momentum for data breach legislation, there continues to be hurdles to seeing any laws come to fruition. But there is certainly optimism. The most pressing issue today is whether a national data breach law will be passed. Most support this concept, however there is a lack...