The evolution of data breach prevention practices

  • 8 September 2016
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Despite the potential costs, legal consequences and other negative outcomes of data breaches, they continue to happen. A new SANS Institute survey looks at the preventive aspect of breaches – and what security and IT practitioners actually are, or are not, implementing for prevention.
 
The survey looked at how practitioners might overcome barriers to implementing effective prevention, including developing clear requirements and defining specific preventive measures, such as the role of automation, threat intelligence and others.
The findings illustrates an apparent disconnect between what is considered preventive by the majority of respondents and the measures that have been implemented for prevention:
 
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There are a lot out there that erally need to read ths article...and hopefully they will start to understnd the scope of the challenge and what they can do about it.

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