Here’s another study about the increase in privacy breaches in 2008, and how most of them are caused by insiders…
ITRC 2008 Breach List
ITRC is the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Here are some revealing stats from the report:
- 78% of privacy breaches are the cause of insiders…those individuals who have authorized access to facilities, systems and applications, such as employees, contractors, business partners, consultants, and so on.
- There were 47% more breaches in 2008 than in 2007.
- Only 2.4% of all breaches had encryption or other strong protection methods in use. Shame on those organizations!
- Only 8.5% of reported breaches had password protection. Shame on those organizations!
The forecast for privacy breaches does not look good.
C’mon, business leaders; invest the time and thought to protect your computer systems and information, in all forms, better!
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