Costs and Consequences - Policy breaches cost money, How much, how often?
While there is much good information available about data security, there are also a number of misconceptions about the nature of the risks and the costs of a company's exposure to them. Here are a few facts gathered from independent sources.
"57% of organisations surveyed experienced security incidents" Datapro International Survey 1997
"52% of companies with between 100 - 499 employees experienced security breaches" Security Breaches Survey 1998 Published by the DTI, NCC & ITSEC
In other words, over half the organisations responding to the Datapro and DTI surveys had experienced some financial loss due to a breach of software security policy in the previous year. So how much do these data security breaches actually cost? |
