Despite the fact that since April 2010 a deliberate or malicious data breach can be punished with a fine of up to £500,000, organisations continue to leave themselves vulnerable to attack. A few weeks ago a doctor at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust was found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act for leaving medical information about 56 patients on the London Underground.
With more than 82 per cent of the adult population now having access to the Internet, Tufin Technologies is warning IT managers of the need to prepare for a potential network overload situation as workers use their company IT resources for everything from multimedia greetings to videoconferencing connections to distant colleagues.
An Imperva survey of more than 1000 UK residents indicates that insider threats are mainly comprised of normal, mainstream employees. Most strikingly, the survey found that 70% of respondents had clear plans to take something with them upon actually leaving their job. The most popular data is intellectual property (27%) and customer records (17%). Moreover, about half of respondents claimed to have personal ownership of the data - 59% in the case that they were about to change jobs, and 53% if they knew they were about to be dismissed.
A global association serving more than 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals—will feature international cloud computing experts at its free virtual seminar and tradeshow, titled Security and Compliance in the Cloud: Define, Defend and Regulate, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday, 8 December 2010. Attendees can participate without leaving their offices.
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