Making data breach prevention a matter of policy

At the rate data breaches occur, it might be easier for everyone to just post their private information straight to the web.

This way, you can avoid worrying whether personal and private information is among the next to be breached. Though I say this in jest, daily it seems a new breach is in the headlines.

Though many states have adopted data breach notification laws, notification is a far cry from prevention. In fact, a recent state-by-state analysis published by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University showed that notification laws have not reduced identity theft.

This fits with the current reactive model of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) that most organisations are leaning on to solve data breach issues. The current mindset seems to be:

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