Incompetence behind most data break-ins?
We keep seeing stories about how security has been breached at some company and sensitive data like social security or credit card numbers stolen. Is this because the hackers are so smart? There are, in fact, some very clever hackers out there but a blog at The Wall Street Journal says incompetence makes it easy for hackers:
Hackers enjoy a reputation as computer whizzes who can break into the most sophisticated systems. They may be whizzes, but the reason for their success is that businesses rely on defenses filled with holes big enough to drive a truck through.
A new study by Verizon’s Business Risk team, which performs post-breach forensics, looked at the causes of more than 500 data-loss incidents and concluded that sloppy security procedures were partly to blame in almost every one.
Unless companies are made more accountable for losing data, the sloppy security will continue. Security costs money and companies aren’t going to worry about it until losing somebody’s personal data starts to hit their bottom line.
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