The point is, Heartland defined the data breach crisis management standard three years ago.
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And much of that growth runs parallel to the steady growth in data breach numbers.
The Epsilon data breach just got more serious or at least, more embarrassing.
For that kind of real-world data breach, unfortunately, there are no Spirit Healers.
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The data breach that occurred at Fidelity National Information Services last week was a security professional's nightmare.
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals voluntarily sent details of this data breach to the Information Commissioner's office.
Violation of your privacy in the form of data breach alone does not entitle you to reimbursement.
Statistics gathered for Verizon's annual data breach report suggested state-sponsored hacking attacks were now the number two cyber-threat.
The truth is: the risks of a data breach are much higher than the possibility of a catastrophic fire.
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Not that long ago, a data breach in healthcare meant a nurse showed your file to an unauthorized person.
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Ask yourself, honestly, what are the chances you will have a data breach?
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Rick Kam is president and co-founder of ID Experts, a provider of data breach prevention and response solutions.
To be sure, national data breach legislation is also on the way.
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It may add a requirement, similar to the Californian law, that companies suffering a data breach inform the public.
On May 1st, the company discovered a data breach on the Sony Online Entertainment service, exposing twenty-four million personal accounts.
The company behind the RSA security tokens that many corporate employees carry around with them everywhere, has suffered a data breach.
The adoption of electronic health care records magnifies the risks of a data breach in ways that paper records never did.
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Data breach crises require companies to provide specific practical solutions that protect consumers, and to assure optimized communications of those solutions.
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Someone whose personal information is taken in a data breach is nearly 10 times more likely to fall prey to ID thieves.
"We can slow down or even roll back the wave of data breach events that now dominate the headlines, " said Mr Rowney.
Also rocking the security world was last week's LinkedIn data breach, which saw 6.4 million members' passwords posted to the Web.
Those laws, known as the E-Privacy Directive, currently require telco networks in the EU to make a swift, mandatory disclosure about a data breach.
Beyond the immediate financial implications of a security breach, you must also consider the long-term impact a data breach will have on your business.
That led to a data breach that compromised more than 100 million user details and a series of other more minor attacks in April.
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Right now companies must navigate through a myriad of existing state laws even as the European Union steps up its data breach disclosure enforcement initiatives.
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One of the newer options getting attention is data breach insurance.
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According to research by CEB, a member-based advisory firm, 90% of the organizations they surveyed had some type of data breach in the past year.
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My first concern, an ongoing concern with coverage of security events, is that the story of a data breach is not always seen in a wide context.
Congress held a data breach hearing last week and is now reconsidering passing national legislation to standardize punishment for companies that allow their data to be breached.
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