More data breaches in 2010 but fewer records compromised

[thewayne]

Verizon does an annual study of data breaches. It would appear that the larger repositories may have improved security, forcing would-be attackers to smaller, more vulnerable targets. Of course, the Epsilon breach may reverse the trend when 2011 statistics become available. The report also postulates that with the Heartland data breach that the market for stolen credit card numbers has become flooded and thus devalued.

The H-Online article is a very good read and links to Verizon's report.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Report-more-breaches-but-fewer-records-compromised-in-2010-1230732.html

Comments

[silveradept]

I don't think I'd ever be able to do something like that, so I guess people still need to do a thing or two for sysadminning.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It's very specialized as most IT is. You need to know how to secure your server, you need to know how to secure any apps that can be accessed from the internet, you need your routers and firewalls to be secure yet still allow access to services from the internet, etc.

It ain't easy. There's a lot of things that you have to get right, and getting one thing wrong can undo the fact that you got 95% of everything else done properly and securely.

[silveradept]

Definitely wish there were safe and secure, sane defaults associated with all of those things, then.