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INSIGHT | October 6, 2009
ROI, Cost/Benefit and a Much-Needed Clarification
Determining ROI has always been a subjective, time-consuming process, but in the world of data security and privacy, is it really necessary in the first place? While it's certainly a best practice in marketing to analyze the cost of an ad campaign vs. the increase in top line growth as a result, in security, weighing cost vs benefit, not return (earnings) is key. Is it an investment? Of course, but the focus is solely on loss prevention and remediation.
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SUMMER Recap | October 1, 2009
A Common Threat: Vulnerability Beyond the Border
As another summer comes to an end, we've seen yet another mass of individual records breached and reported by the media. This time over 1,103,820 from June 1 through September 30. So why after years of increased focus on data loss prevention, privacy and identity theft awareness are we still seeing these events occur? What's the one commonality in most of these breaches?
Most occurred in the Extended Enterprise. Remote employee laptops, USB flash-drives, trusted third-parties handling information..all common occurrences in today's mobile world. Keenly aware of these security threats, almost all large organizations employ best practices such as firewalls, intrusion detection, access-control, encryption, network monitoring, etc to prevent such data loss.
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