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Insiders represent the greatest threat to the secure data of financial services firms, according to the latest Verizon Business Data Breach report. This marks a strong contrast with companies in other sectors, such as high tech services, food and beverage, and retail, which saw business partners as posing the greatest risk to their data.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Data Theft and Breaches - A Solution?
These data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture. I found some fresh and original thinking from the author of “IT Wars” - http://www.businessforum.com/DScott_02.html - I urge every business person and IT person, management or staff, to get hold of a copy of "I.T. Wars: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium." It has an excellent chapter on security, and how to scale security for any organization, any budget. It also has a plan template with all considerations. Our CEO has read this book. Our project managers have read it. Our vendors are required to read it (they can borrow our copies if they don't want to purchase it) – it helps them to understand our values and practices. Any agencies that wish to partner with us: We ask that they read it. Do yourself a favor and read this book – BEFORE you suffer a breach.