What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?

re: What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?

JeremyH — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:12:37 GMT

Steve, completely agree with your point about how valuable your data is to you (your company) should be of primary concern. However I am cautious that you don't disregard what it's worth to an attacker. Sure if you value the data more than an attacker it's the way to go, however if the data is worth coniderably more for an attacker than it is for the company (and to be honest I cannot think right now of a scenario for this) then should that not be taken into consideration also ? - for this may indicate how far and how hard someone may be willing to go to obtain it. - and hence the likelyhood of your security measures being tested and/or the data being stolen etc.

Perhaps it should be that in any considerations you allow for both values but in particular the higher value - which ever side that value applies ?

re: What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?

JOE — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:08:47 GMT

I read about your vital point on how to protect data from the attacker but you never make or tell us important step on how to protect how data from the attackers, so please tell me how i can protect my data from attackers because my data means a lot to me.

re: What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?

Steve Riley — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:22:06 GMT

Joe-- This is what information security is all about! There are plenty of good books and web sites that can help you learn about it. See my del.icio.us link in the right-hand column for some starting points. And there's plenty of information at http://www.microsoft.com/security.

re: What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?

Alun Jones — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:08:19 GMT

I think it's important to remember that part of the value this data has to your company is the value it has to your customers.

Maybe you only get a few dollars per customer per year, but if you lose their information, that customer's out several hundred, perhaps several thousand, dealing with the fallout of 'identity theft'.

Obviously, that cost may come back to your company, in the form of fines, credit watch services, etc, but it's a layer of depth that many companies still aren't ready to think about.

Security ... looking in the wrong places ?

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re: What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?

pc forum — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:45:21 GMT

Great post, explained really well and I could really understand. Thank you.