Data breaches are costly. According to a recent Ponemon Institute study, the average breach costs an organisation $3.86 million. A separate study found that, although the share price of breach-affected companies shows its sharpest drop 14 days after the breach is made public, there is still a discernible impact on the organisation’s stock valuation three years post-event. By Josh Lefkowitz, CEO of Flashpoint.
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Read MoreVMware and Carbon Black have entered into a definitive agreement by which VMware will acquire Carbon Black in an all cash transaction for $26 per share, representing an enterprise value of $2.1 billion. Following the close of the transaction, VMware will be positioned to provide a highly differentiated, intrinsic security cloud that will better protect enterprise workloads and clients through big data, behavioral analytics and AI.
Read MoreWatch as Magda Chelly, Managing Director and CISO on Demand, Responsible Cyber, talks with RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan, PhD about the misconceptions she sees executives having about the InfoSec industry.
Watch nowWhen the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018, businesses from all sectors struggled to meet the deadline. According to our research announced around the same time, more than two thirds of companies were not confident of being fully compliant ahead of the GDPR deadline. That said, despite the number of breaches last year, so far, regulators have yet to bring GDPR fines to bear on an organisation that was breached since May 25. Typical investigations into major...
Read MoreLatest judgements against British Airways and Marriott producing fear of fines (32%) and increasing board level involvement with cyber security within financial firms.
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