Alarming Research According to the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach by Poneman Institute, a Michigan-based research center that studies privacy, data protection and information security policy, security breaches cost $214 per compromised record and average $7.2 million per data breach ...

There is a common myth that regulation and compliance, such as PCI and Basil II, benefits data security. In other words, thanks to these mandates data is more secure …where it otherwise would not be. In reality, it quite possibly could make some organizations much less secure. How could a regulation...

Regulation and compliance have had, and continue to, significantly impact data security trends and IT behavior. The following are some of the most instrumental policies and their influence on security operations.Directive 95/46/EC (“Data Protection Directive”)At a European level, sets up a regulator...