Data Breaches: Preparation, Damage Control and a Recent History

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Tue, February 06, 2007

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The TJX Companies, UCLA, Boeing, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), ChoicePoint, Bank of America, DSW Shoe Warehouse and T-Mobile.  These are just a few of the entities hit in recent years with high-profile data breaches, and they surely won’t be the last organizations to fall victim to such incidents.  Indeed, security breaches are as common in today’s business landscape as bad coffee and briefcases.  And the potential value to fraudsters of such information as names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and the like—the key ingredients in the ID theft recipe—will keep thieves and criminals crawling back for more like spiders to the web.

Whether you and your enterprise have already experienced a data breach and know all too well how to put out the associated fires, or you think you’ve got the most secure systems in all of IT land, the following resources are sure to help you respond to and better prepare yourself for that inevitable data breach.

Bookmark this page because you never know when you’re valuable data is going to turn up in hands of someone you wouldn’t trust with your daily garbage. 

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TJX Breach: Why This One’s Different (CIO.com blog post)

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