Unlearned Lessons of ChoicePoint, Four Years Later
September 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Commentaries and Analyses
Bill Brenner writes:
It’s been four years since data broker ChoicePoint acknowledged the data security breach that put it in the middle of a media firestorm and pushed data protection to the top of the infosecurity community’s priority list.
Since then, the business world has made plenty of progress hardening its data defenses — thanks in part to industry standards like PCI DSS and data breach disclosure laws (click to see state-by-state map) now in place.
But the latest data breach to grab headlines illustrates how vulnerable organizations remain to devastating network intrusions.
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