Standards group releases 2012 data protection and breach guide
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 | Author: admin
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA), an industry standards group, released this week its 2012 Data Protection and Breach Guide, which includes a review of 2011 data breaches and recommendations for businesses to prevent breaches and manage incidents.
The annual guide provides an analysis of the past year’s security breaches and offers companies a range of best practices in data security, privacy, and data collection.
In 2011, over 558 incidents were reported at a cost to US businesses of more than $6.5 billion, according to the guide. It is estimated over 50% were a result of a server exploit, of which 96% were avoidable if the recommendations outlined in the guide had been implemented, OTA said.
Category: DataBase Security