You may notice that after installing the Mac OS X v10.6.7 update on your MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010), when you open iTunes your computer may become unresponsive. (more…)
One of the challenges that businesses regularly face is how to balance the known costs of network, application and data protection against the unknown costs of a data breach or series of breaches. Often, business owners or IT staff are left to guess or worse, fail to acknowledge the costs and consequences of a significant breach of information. Thanks to the Ponemon Institute , new research data is available to help provide guidance on the costs of a data breach. Some key facts from their research shows: 7% – the increase of data breach costs in 2010 $214 – the average cost per individual record compromised $7.2 million – the average organizational cost of a data breach Additionally, this research shows that malicious acts were the root cause of 31 percent of the data breaches studied, which is significantly up over the last two years. But, the leading cause of data breaches is negligence – a whopping 41 percent of breaches are due to negligence in protecting and safeguarding sensitive data. What can a business glean from this? Take this recent example from the University of South Carolina where 31,000 individual’s private information, including social security numbers, was exposed online. When applying the $214 cost per record, a quick calculation shows that the University is facing a potential cost of $6.6 million (more…)
