Humans continue to be 'weak link' in data security
An article by the Computer World UK highlighting laptop theft and removing the 'human factor' for data security.
computerworlduk.com March 13th, 2010
Nearly 90 percent of IT workers in the UK have said a laptop in their organisation has been reported lost or stolen, new research has found.
Sixty-one percent said that this then resulted in a data breach, according to the ‘2010 Human Factor in Laptop Encryption Study: United Kingdom', a report produced by the Ponemon Institute for Absolute Software.
A survey from Ponemon in January revealed that the cost of a data breach had risen last year to £126 per customer record. The average total cost of a data breach rose from £4.1 million in 2008 to £4.17 million in 2009.
Ponemon surveyed 368 IT workers and 355 non-IT business managers for the latest report.