Seven in 10 government mobile devices are unencrypted.
Government Accountability Office (GAO), IT Security: Federal Agency efforts to encrypt
sensitive information are under way, but work remains, June 2008
53% of mobile professionals carry confidential company information on their notebook
PCs and, of those, 65% don’t take steps to protect the data.
Dell & Ponemon Institute, Airport Insecurity: the case of lost laptops, June 30, 2008
66% of US employees write down passwords in unsafe places.
IT Facts, 66% of US employees write down passwords in unsafe places, March 21, 2008
34% of the businesses have no tools/procedures in place to detect identity fraud.
Ad-hoc News, Business Owners Have “False Sense of Security’’ When It Comes to Data
Breaches, May 27, 2008
85% of privacy and security professionals had at least one reportable breach in the past 12 months.
Deloitte, Enterprise @ Risk: 2007 Privacy & Protection Survey, 2007
63% of privacy and security professionals experienced multiple reportable data breaches – between 6 and 20 breaches – in 2007.
Deloitte, Enterprise @ Risk: 2007 Privacy & Protection Survey, 2007
66% of breaches involved data the company did not know was on their system.
Verizon, 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report, 2008
The cost of recovering from a single data breach now averages $6.3M - that’s up 31 percent since 2006 and nearly 90 percent since 2005.
Ponemon Institute, U.S. Costs of a Data Breach, November 2007
Laptop theft accounted for 50% of reported security attacks.
CSI, The 12th Annual Computer Crime and Security Survey, 2007
Lost or stolen laptops and mobile devices are the most frequent cause of a data breach, accounting for 49% of data breaches in 2007.
Ponemon Institute, U.S. Costs of a Data Breach, November 2007
12,000 laptops are lost in U.S. airports each week, and two-thirds are never returned.
Dell & Ponemon Institute, Airport Insecurity: the case of lost laptops, June 30, 2008
62% of breaches were attributed to significant internal errors.
Verizon, 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report, 2008
The majority of data breaches (61%) originate from internal sources, as a result of enterprises’ inability to enforce their IT policies or due to problems with the policies themselves.
Data Monitor, Mitigating the Risks of Data Loss, August 2007
One out of every 10 notebook computers will be stolen within the first 12 months of purchase, and 90% of them will never be recovered. - FB
Laptop theft doubled over the past year. - FBI
Targeted laptop theft on the rise.- FBI
Over 85% of theft is insider job.- FBI
Laptop theft is one of the top 3 computer crimes along with virus and hacking - FBI.
"Laptops are the most stolen article of property in San Francisco." - San Francisco Police Department, Aug 22, 02.
81% of U.S. firms lost laptops with sensitive data in the past year- Ponemon Institute, Aug 2006
"Loss of confidential data -- including intellectual property, business documents, customer data and employee records -- is a pervasive problem among U.S. companies"- ComputerWorld, Aug 2006.
"Seven out of 10 organizations had laptop computers stolen during the past 12 months, according to a recent survey" - AusCERT, 2006
Laptop theft related; 60% of corporate data resides on desktops and laptops -IDC
One out of every two computers in the world will be a laptop by 2008- IDC