Privacy and security has become a major focus of the Department of Commerce. The Department’s Internet Policy Task Force has issued its second green paper, this one proposing the creation of nationally recognized voluntary codes of conduct to help strengthen cybersecurity. Comments will be accepted on “Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy” through August 1, 2011…. Continue Reading
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2010 Annual Ponemon Study on Cost of Data Breaches
Posted in UncategorizedThe 2010 Ponemon Institute study on the cost of data breaches has been released. The numbers are eye-opening. The average total cost per reporting company in the study was $7.2 million per breach — the most expensive data breach cost $35.3 million and the least expensive breach cost $780,000. Costs were incurred in the usual… Continue Reading
