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Many organizations take steps to guard against data breaches, employing new policies, tools and strategies that make them feel protected, but their defenses may not be as strong as they think. Unfortunately, this false sense of security is all-too-easy to come by. Data breaches are commonplace now and there’s a growing realization that organizations need to do more to combat them and to deal with the aftermath. The potential cost of stolen data extends beyond cleanup operations to potentialfalse

Trends in Data Breaches and Comprehensive Responses Does your organization have a data breach response plan? Join Michelle Drolet and a team of industry experts for an interactive Q&A panel and discover the best practices for breach response and how to strengthen your organization's cyber resilience.

Trends in Data Breaches and Comprehensive Responses Does your organization have a data breach response plan? Join Michelle Drolet and a team of industry experts for an interactive Q&A panel and discover the best practices for breach response and how to strengthen your organization's cyber resilience.

Join us for our next InfoSec at Your Services Meetup: "GDPR Context and Myth Busters by Our Resident Expert Greg Albertyn" Hosted by Michelle Drolet and Greg Albertyn

Make sure you understand the need to operationalize data management and security. There has been a widespread rush to get organized and compliant in time for the May 25 deadline when the EU data privacy law General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect. Little wonder when you consider what non-compliance with the GDPR could cost you -- fines of up to 20 million euros (around $23.7 million) or 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever isfalse

6th Annual Information Security Summit Presented by MassBay Community College and Towerwall, Inc.

Learn about best practices to combat the threat of ransomware There have been some seriously nasty ransomware attacks in the last few years. From Petya to Wannacry to the SamSam attack on health record company Allscripts just last month, ransomware has been wreaking havoc across the world. Global ransomware damages exceeded $5 billion last year, up from $325 million in 2015. That’s a meteoric rise. The sad thing is we understand the risks and how to mitigate them. A few simple steps can atfalse

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10) Data breaches. Nearly 5 million data records are lost or stolen worldwide every single day, or 58 records every second. According to an IBM report, the average cost of a data breach is $7.3 million.

58 data records are stolen every second at an average cost of $141 each. Trading in intellectual property and personal data is so widespread that someone invented a calculator that can estimate the potential harm to your own business. Nearly 5 million data records are lost or stolen worldwide every single day, according to the Breach Level Index. That’s a staggering 58 records every second. High profile data breaches hit the headlines with worrying frequency. Just last year there werefalse