Posts Tagged ‘ Security Breaches ’

Resources for managing your enterprise security and privacy risk in the new year

Here’s a look at some of the resources I find useful in testing and training for a data breach.[ READ MORE ]

Year of the breach: 2011 in review

Several high profile events throughout the year have kept the spotlight on the issue of data exposures, especially those where millions of consumers information was obtained by malicious hackers. Although the information involved, emails and passwords, does not rise to the level of a “personal identifying information” (PII) breach, it is definitely troubling that such a large number of consumers may become targets of phishing and related attacks, which do attempt to get consumers PII.[ READ MORE ]

Holiday travel without data leaks

The average value of a lost laptop is $49,246, a number based on several factors: replacement cost, detection, forensics, data breach, lost intellectual property costs, lost productivity and legal, consulting and regulatory expenses. [ READ MORE ]

Data breaches make the hospitality industry less hospitable

According to a new report by British insurance firm Willis Group Holdings, insurance claims for data theft worldwide jumped 56% last year, with the largest share of those attacks - 38% - targeting hotels, reports and tour companies. Why are hackers increasingly making themselves at home in the hospitality sector? [ READ MORE ]

10 ways that breaches burn business

Don’t let your bottom line go up in flames: understand how security breaches impact your business and take aggressive action to avert disaster.[ READ MORE ]

Helpful tips on data breach notification

Tweet When a data breach occurs it is important to understand the breach notification laws in your State and what you have to do to abide by them. After contacting your legal counsel, the next stop you can make is the National Conference of State Legislatures which maintains a list of enacted and proposed security [...][ READ MORE ]