Posts Tagged Ponemon Institute
Is the concern for data protection making half of all employees less productive?
Posted by brianfpennington in Uncategorized on 04/06/2013
In 2010, the Visual Data Breach Risk Assessment Study revealed that two out of three working professionals are displaying sensitive information on their mobile devices, such as social security numbers, credit card numbers and other non-regulated but sensitive company information, when outside the office. This points to the insight that in certain circumstances people value […]
Schools are concerned about cloud security
Posted by brianfpennington in Uncategorized on 30/05/2013
SafeGov.org and the Ponemon Institute have released the results of a survey of UK schools designed to measure the views of school staff on the rapidly rising use of cloud services in the education sector and the potential risks to student privacy. The study focused on cloud versions of email and document collaboration tools: a majority […]
76% of companies have had a data breach or expect to have a breach
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 23/05/2013
Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute have released a study that finds that, despite the majority of companies experiencing or anticipating significant cost and business disruption due to a material data breach, they still struggle to take the proper measures to mitigate damage in the wake of an incident. The report, “Is Your […]
The growing threat of insider fraud not a top security priority for organizations
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 01/03/2013
An Attachmate sponsored Ponemon Survey indicates the growing threat of insider fraud is not a top security priority for organizations which is proving to be a costly mistake. On average, organisations experience approximately one fraud event per week, according to information from the second annual Attachmate and Ponemon Institute survey, “The Risk of Insider Fraud“ However, only […]
Survey reveals companies are taking risks whilst outsourcing consumer data
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 28/02/2013
Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute survey results identify opportunity for improved data oversight. The study, “Securing Outsourced Consumer Data”, reveals that many organizations (46%) do not evaluate the security and privacy practices of vendors before sharing sensitive or confidential information. The survey of almost 750 individuals in organizations that transfer consumer data to third-party vendors. […]
What happens after a data breach?
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/02/2013
A report by Solera Networks and Ponemon reveals rise in security breaches, with organisations taking months to detect and contain them. The Ponemon report “The Post Breach Boom”’ commissioned by Solera Networks polled 3,529 IT and IT security professionals in eight countries to understand the steps they are taking in the aftermath of malicious and […]
Big Data Analytics can improve IT Security defences
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 27/02/2013
A new study by the Ponemon Institute, Big Data Analytics in Cyber Defense, confirms that Big Data analytics offers substantial benefits to organisations but adoption is very slow. The report commissioned by Teradata Corporation contains some interesting results: Cyber-attacks are getting worse but only 20% say their organizations are more effective at stopping them. The greatest areas of […]
How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 25/02/2013
“What’s Yours is Mine: How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk” is a white paper produced by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Symantec. The paper reviews the way employees perceive corporate data and their mindset and motivations for copying data and Intellectual Property Key Findings Employees are moving IP outside the company […]
Top 20 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy – 2012
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 28/01/2013
Ponemon has released is list of the Top 20 most trusted companies and how they ranked in 2012 and 2011. Top 20 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy (2012 Rank, 2011 Rank) is below American Express (1, 1) Hewlett Packard (2, 2) Amazon (3, 5) IBM (4, 3) / US Postal Service (4, 6) Procter & […]
The average cost of a data breach is $8.9m in the US and £2.1m in the UK
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 07/11/2012
The results of the Ponemon 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime Study for the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Japan. For the purposes of this post I have summarised the United States and the United Kingdom. The study, sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, focused on organizations located in the United States and the United Kingdom many are multinational corporations. […]
Almost 50% of organizations report 10 or more significant data breaches a year
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 11/09/2012
Ponemon have revealed the results of a Co3 Systems sponsored survey into Data Loss Management. Ponemon Institute polled more than 100 influencers in the privacy and data protection community across the US. Key findings of the survey were:- almost 50% of organizations experience ten or more data loss incidents annually that meet the legal criteria that […]
Who is responsible for data protection in the cloud?
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 10/08/2012
Encryption in the Cloud is a Ponemon Institute report sponsored by Thales. The study considers how encryption is used to ensure sensitive or confidential data is kept safe and secure when transferred to external-based cloud service providers. 4,140 business and IT managers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Japan and Brazil were surveyed. Following […]
Consumers express their opinions of Data Breach Notifications
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 08/06/2012
Ponemon Institute have released an Experian® Data Breach Resolution sponsored survey into what consumer think about Data Breach Notifications, titled 2012 Consumer Study on Data Breach Notifications. I have made a summary of the survey below. Consumers in the Ponemon and Experian joint study believe data breach notification is important under certain conditions 85% believe notification […]
2012 Application Security Gap Study: A Survey of IT Security & Developers
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 29/03/2012
In this Security Innovation sponsored Ponemon study 567 IT security practitioners were asked about the following topics: Application security processes considered most effective Adoption and use of technologies that are affecting the state of application security Gaps between people, process and technology and the affect they have on the enterprise Different perceptions security and development practitioners have […]
Aftermath of a Data Breach
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 29/01/2012
Ponemon Institute, sponsored by Experian®, has released the findings of their Aftermath of a Data Breach study. The study was conducted to learn what organizations did to recover from the financial and reputational damage of a data breach involving customer and consumer records. Consumer and customer information collected by organizations is at great risk due to […]
Reputation damage could cost more than PCI Compliance or Data Protection Act fines
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 11/11/2011
Image via Wikipedia A Ponemon Institute and Experian survey of almost 850 executives reveals that on average it can take up to a year for an organisation to restores its reputation. Reputations have always been difficult to value as they change with market demands, styles and presentation. This research is interesting as it does place […]
90 Percent of Businesses Fell Victim to a Cyber Security Breach
Posted by brianfpennington in Uncategorized on 30/06/2011
The Ponemon Institute has released the the results of a study conducted to determine what IT and IT security practitioners in the US, UK, France and Germany think about how well their organizations are responding to threats against network security. Sponsored by Juniper Networks, they believe the research is important because “it can provide insights from those who […]
The State of Data Security a report by Sophos
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 31/05/2011
Sophos has published its first report focused on data security, “The State of Data Security”. The report is excellent read with 25 pages packed full of information and advice. The report provides advice and guidance to businesses interested in protecting their data, including “Today’s IT and business managers must take a hard look at the […]
Study: Consumers’ Reaction to Online Fraud
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 28/04/2011
ThreatMatrix and Cloud-based Fraud Prevention Company and the Ponemon Institute have released the findings of their joint study on Consumers and their awareness and appreciation of online fraud. The study has revealed 85% of respondents reported being worried and dissatisfied with the level of protection online businesses are providing to stop fraudsters. This % is […]
PCI DSS Compliance Trends Study, 2011
Posted by brianfpennington in PCI DSS Compliance on 21/04/2011
Imperva and Ponemon 2011 PCI DSS Compliance Trends Study. Survey of IT & IT security practitioners in the U.S. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) continues to be one of the most important regulations for all organizations that hold, process or exchange cardholder information. In 2009, Ponemon Institute, with sponsorship from Imperva, conducted the first study […]
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