http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224200279 By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek March 24, 2010 06:05 PM Seventy-seven percent of C-level executives in a 115-person survey conducted in the U.K. say their organization has experienced a data breach at some point and all of them report attacks targeting corporate data in the past 12 months. These findings come from a study released on Wednesday by IBM, a company that sells data protection services, and The Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research organization. Larry Ponemon, founder of the group that bears his name, said that survey shows a shift in the way C-level executives think about security software. Investing in data protection, he said, is now seen as less expensive than recovering from a data breach. Data protection initiatives on average, according to the survey, result in a cost savings or revenue improvement of 11 million ($16 million) for organizations. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Wed Mar 24 2010 - 23:36:11 PDT
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