Enterprise@Risk: 2007 Privacy & Data Protection Survey

Reportable and multiple privacy breaches rising at alarming rate! Personally identifiable information of customers and employees is being exposed – frequently and repeatedly – potentially putting hundreds of thousands of individuals at risk and exposing organizations to increased liability, according to a new survey report by Deloitte & Touche LLP (Deloitte & Touche) and the Ponemon Institute LLC. In the survey, a shocking 85 percent of privacy and security professionals in North America acknowledge that a reportable data breach occurred within their organization in the last year.

More than 800 North American privacy and security professionals responded to the online survey by Deloitte & Touche and the Ponemon Institute LLC, which was conducted to better understand the emerging privacy function. The survey analyzes the roles, activities and time allocation preferences of these professionals, as well as their organizational status and relationships.

Among the survey’s key findings:

Reportable privacy breaches are occurring often – and repeatedly – within organizations.
85 percent of privacy and security professionals surveyed had a reportable breach within the past 12 months
63 percent of privacy and security professionals surveyed had multiple reportable privacy breaches – between 6 and 20 breaches – in the past year

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/article/0%2C1002%2Ccid%25253D182733%2C00.html

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