Up to $204 per compromised record. That’s the latest data the Ponemon Institute has collected based on their annual study. Ellen Messmer’s PC World article on the cost of data breaches again supports the notion that, just like your doctor keeps telling you, preventive strategies will save you in the long run, in more ways than one.
The article also contains a link to the 2009 Data Breach Hall of Shame, which is interesting reading. Heartland Payment Systems topped the list with 130 million records breached through SQL injection! Ouch.
Google is not infallible? That’s crazy talk. Well, this apparent leak just goes to show that no company or organization is truly safe from data breaches. This was not an intentional or malicious data breach, and most data breaches are not — it was simple human error, which is never going to be extinguished as a potential chink in a company’s data protection armor.
If Google were using Biscom Delivery Server for its secure communication however, this could have been avoided. Even if it was sent out in error (which even the best DLP solutions may not catch), the recall feature of BDS could have prevented the leak.
Read about the leak here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/186719/google_blames_human_error_for_data_leak.html
Biscom was interviewed by the Boston Business Journal a few weeks ago, and the story just came out. At a time when many high tech businesses in Boston are hurting, Biscom stands out as a profitable, growing company, and it’s nice that we’re being recognized for that.
Biscom’s roots do go back to computer fax technology (Biscom invented the category of a computer-based fax server back in 1986), but Biscom has expanded its scope to include all kinds of document delivery, including secure file transfer, workflow, imaging solutions, cloud-based offerings, VM appliances, and Fax over IP.
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