Articles Tagged with ''data loss prevention''

Despite cyber risks being ranked as an equal or worse financial threat than natural disasters, companies continue to neglect to source cyber security insurance, according to a new Ponemon study.

Thirty-one percent of data breaches are caused by simple loss or theft, a new Forrester study reports, and another 27 percent of incidents are caused by unwitting misuse of data by an employee.

There will be 350 million employees using their own devices for work by 2014, a new report from Juniper Research says, compared to the current number of 150 million users. 

After 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked online, the networking website is seeing its first lawsuit on the matter.

Protecting these vital areas in an office or workplace will help to secure your data from costly breaches.

Thirty-five percent of small-business owners do not have a known or understood confidential data storage or disposal plan.

Both websites are recommending that users change their passwords immediately following an 8-million-password breach.

The malicious computer program has all but convinced experts that a government sponsor was behind the suspicious activity.

U.N. cyber security officials are sending their most serious cyber warning ever to member nations, warning of the spying capabilities of the Flame virus. 

One in four companies has suffered data loss in the past two years as 32 percent of surveyed IT professionals state that data loss is their biggest worry this year.