http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219100645 By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Aug 10, 2009 Half of all organizations say tighter budgets have hurt their ability to protect the leakage of sensitive or confidential information during the past year, according to a new report. The increasing number of layoffs overall, and of IT staff, specifically, are taking their toll on security, Proofpoint's "Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention in Today's Enterprise" survey found. More than one-third (34 percent) of U.S. companies in the survey said they had suffered from the leakage of sensitive or embarrassing data in the past 12 months. Forty-three percent said they had investigated a suspected leak of sensitive data via email, and 34 percent had investigated a violation of data protection regulations or privacy in the past year. More than one-third said customer data was exposed or stolen, and 28 percent said they had been hit by exposure or theft of their intellectual property during the past year. "I was kind of surprised how many data breaches via email had been investigated. When that number is over 40 percent, that's really high. It is still the biggest risk area," says Keith Crosley, director of market development for Proofpoint. The report is based on data gathered from 220 email decision-makers at U.S. companies with more than 1,000 employees. Interestingly, even with their dwindling man power, many organizations are cracking down more on data leakage violations than ever before. "Discipline and termination were pretty high this year," Crosley says. [...] ___________________________________________________ Visit and Submit to the Defcon Memory Repository http://www.defconpics.org/Received on Mon Aug 10 2009 - 23:31:16 PDT
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