4th Annual Ponemon Benchmark Study – Reveals New Problems for PHI Security Same as it ever was? You’d be forgiven for thinking that after reading the Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security Report (the “Study”). Conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by our friends at ID Experts, the picture […]
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New Ponemon Data Breach Study Finds Breach Costs Have Fallen
Since its first issue seven years ago, the Ponemon Institute’s annual Cost of Data Breach Study (“CDBS”) has become a must read for privacy and breach professionals. The latest CDBS study, covering the 2011 year, can be considered a bookend to Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which 2012 edition was likewise recently released The […]
Ponemon Study: 73% Believe Cloud Providers Do Not Protect User’s Confidential Information
Growing scrutiny of cloud computing security in the first half of this year is not surprising in light of the numerous data breaches, privacy issues and headline grabbing cloud outages that have occurred recently. (See Amazon EC2 outage, Amazon Cloud Drive Terms of Use, DropBox privacy concerns, Epsilon breach, etc.). On the heels of this […]
