Verizon breach report released
As they have for the last five years, Verizon released a report on data breaches. Some quick and interesting facts from the report:
- Most breaches result from external attacks.
- Most of the attacks were simple
- Most of the attacks could have been prevented using simple, low-cost defenses
- Most attacks were facilitated by mistakes
- Most of the breaches involved financial data
To me, this says that the problem isn’t technical–it’s managerial. We need to have better ways to ensure that basic security measures are actually implemented and maintained.