6 Steps Organizations Should Take After a Data Breach
The worst has come to pass: your organization’s data has been exposed. What should your business do after a data…
Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report – A Look at the Big Picture (Part 1)
The 11th installment of the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was recently released, with the goal of informing its…
Recent Data Breaches Have Pushed Compromised Records to an All-Time High
Look no further than the recent Equifax breach (and now the developing Sonic breach) for evidence that hackers have become…
Equifax Data Breach, Part 1: What Consumers Need to Know and Do
There has been a LOT of discussion about Equifax’s recent data breach – which is already being called “the worst…
A Closer Look at the Findings from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute’s 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study
The 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study, the industry’s gold-standard benchmark research, was released last week. Sponsored by IBM Security…
Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report – A Look at the Big Picture (Part 2)
The second part of Verizon’s DBIR 2017 summarizes industry specific data breaches, followed by the nine incident patterns most commonly…
How Can Hoteliers Protect Themselves from Data Breaches? We Sit Down with Hospitality Technology to Discuss
In the wake of the IHG data breach, we sat down with Hospitality Technology to discuss how the hospitality industry…
The Continued Rise of Data Breaches – Where Did We Start and Where are We Going in 2017?
2016 pretty much blew all previous breach numbers out of the water. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC)…
The Impact of Data Breaches on Franchises: Brand Name and Reputational Risk
This week, Bluefin partner, Two Men and a Truck (TMT), the largest and fastest growing moving franchise with over 340…
The Journal of Accountancy Explores the Hidden Costs of a Data Breach
Think a data breach just hits the wallet? Not so reports the Journal of Accountancy. There are many intangible assets,…