The 2010 Verizon Data Breach Report is Out
YMMV. Includes info from the Secret Service and some of their cases. Not much changed from previous years.
Who is behind Data Breaches?
- 70% resulted from external agents
- 48% caused by insiders
- 11% implicated business partners
- 27% involved multiple parties
How do breaches occur?
- 48% involved privilege misuse
- 40% resulted from hacking
- 38% utilized malware
- 28% involved social tactics
- 15% comprised physical attacks
What commonalities exist?
- 98% of all data breached came from servers
- 85% of attacks were not considered highly difficult
- 61% were discovered by a third party
- 86% of victims had evidence of the breach in their log files
- 96% of breaches were avoidable through simple or intermediate controls
- 79% of victims subject to PCI DSS had not achieved compliance
Jump over to Verizon for the report: http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_2010-data-breach-report_en_xg.pdf
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