Access member only content, take part in discussions with comments on blogs, news and reviews and receive all the latest security industry news directly to your inbox. Join now for free.
A confirmation email has been sent to your email address - SUPPLIED EMAIL HERE. Please click on the link in the email to verify your email address. You need to verify your email before you can start posting.
If you do not receive your confirmation email within the next few minutes, it may be because the email has been captured by a junk mail filter. Please ensure you add the domain @scmagazine.com.au to your white-listed senders.
fShe’s in the store for 20 minutes and returns to find a window broken and her laptop gone. The cost to replace the laptop: $1,700 — the cost of losing the data: more than the analyst, your CEO, and the board of directors could ever imagine.
Sound familiar? Hopefully not, but variations on this scenario are becoming commonplace. The US Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reports that since 2005 almost 150 million individuals’ personally identifiable information has been compromised due to a data security breach.
The breach of TJX Corporation’s systems (parent of T.J. Maxx), resulting in the theft of 45 million credit card numbers and other personal details, shows that this trend continues to grow.
Registered users may log in here.
Login or Register now and get unlimited access.