InfoWatch is a privately-held company, delivering its enterprise customers software solutions to monitor and manage information flow (founded by Kaspersky Lab)
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Founded by Kaspersky LabInfoWatch is a privately-held company, delivering its enterprise customers software solutions to monitor and manage corporate information flow. Read more...
InfoWatch brings you the latest in statistics and analysis covering information leaks. In 2011, InfoWatch Analytical Centre Company recorded 801 incidents relating to confidential information leaks. That is around 1% more than in the previous year. That is the number of leaks which occurred in organizations as a result of the deliberate or careless actions of employees and were published in the media or other open sources (including web forums and blogs).
InfoWatch presents the latest issue of its annual analytical study of confidential data leaks, reported in the world in 2010. The study is based on a database that was maintained by InfoWatch experts since 2004. The InfoWatch leak database includes the incidents that took place in the organizations as a result of malicious insider attacks or careless acts of employees and were released in the mass media and other open sources (incl. web forums and blogs).
There have been 171 reported data breaches so far in 2010, and 20 of these involve financial services companies.
This means that in less than one quarter of the year, we already have seen nearly one-third of the 62 banking-related breaches reported in all of 2009.
In this the heavy tax season where billions of dollars and tons of personal information is relayed to and from the government, it's more disconcerting to hear that the Internal Revenue Service is still struggling to keep private information secure.
