Posted on Friday, 2nd October 2009 by Admin
In recent months, with the continued growth in highly public data breach incidents, we began looking at how organizations assess their level of exposure to data breach risk. I suspect if you ask the CEO of most public companies or public sector organizations about their level of risk, that they would tell you that they are “highly secure” and maintain excellent practices to prevent the misappropriation of personal information of their customers, patients, employees, students and other affiliates.
For many firms, they have to meet security and compliance requirements that are necessities in their industry, such as PCI for those that handle credit card information and HIPAA for healthcare organizations. Historically I think that they felt such rigorous compliance requirements could ensure their safety from the risks of data breach.
However, the recent past demonstrates that no organization is really immune to a potential data breach incident. The
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