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Recent Data Breaches
Against a backdrop of Enterprises calling foul over an ever intensifying regulatory climate comes this story from IT Business Edge reported on a few of the major recent data breaches:
A Michigan business consultant and former employee of Sentry Insurance Company received five years in prison for stealing personal identification information of more than 110,000 customers of Sentry. At least he was brought to justice, but wouldn't it have been better to prevent the breach from happening?
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (an independent public authority designed to protect personal and official data by enforcing and overseeing the Data protection Act, among other regulations) noted that it found an astoundingly high number of security breaches by both retailers and banks. Exactly how high? They report that they have received 24,000 complaints, questions, and concerns about the security of their personal information in the hands of a variety of industries, with Internet firms at the top of the list.
And clearly we can not forget TJ Maxx, which has been grabbing headlines for the better part of the last seven months. The number of credit and debit cards potentially exposed to fraud has climbed to nearly 46 million as of early April.
There is a reason that PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, and other regulations (not to mention common sense) require that you store and review logs periodically.
Posted July 13, 2007 in | Permalink
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