Customers, Employees And Businesses: Who Suffers As A Result Of A Data Breach?

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By AVG Technologies USA, Inc.

Protecting data on your own computer is relatively straightforward but what about information that connects to your business, which is out of your IT department's control?

Updating anti-virus protection, keeping up with security patches and assuming that any online link that looks questionable is bad news are just some of the ways that average PC users should take to keep themselves secure. But what risks exist to the data that is out of our central control? A whole range of public and private sector companies hold confidential information on various elements of our business, which we trust them to keep safe. Unfortunately sometimes that trust is misplaced.

Incidents when data is lost or stolen from a company are known as data breaches and they are on the increase. A recent study from the United States National Cyber Security Alliance revealed that 65 percent of small businesses surveyed hold customer data, while 33 percent admitted to storing credit card information. Despite admitting that the Internet was critical to their operations, only 28 percent of the companies surveyed said they had formal policies on Internet security in place. More concerning, only 35 percent said they provided any kind of training on Internet safety and security to their staff and only 14 percent said they had anyone solely focused on IT security within the company.

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