This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but Sue Marquette Poremba reports that the Poneman Institute released research that indicates the financial costs of breaches is on the rise: A recent Ponemon Institute study states that the cost of a breach went up in 2010 to approximately $214 per record, $10 more per breached record [...]
The Ponemon Institute just issued its yearly “Costs of a Data Breach” study that reveals some very interesting U.S. numbers. Granted, we view the losses involved with a breach to be more than monetary when you consider damaged reputation, loss of business, etc., but the financial numbers alone are quite interesting: Because we examine [...]