Security News > 2023 > January > 6 oversights that enable data breaches
Personal employee or customer data accounted for nearly 45% of all data stolen between July 2021 and June 2022, while companies' source code and proprietary information accounted for a further 6.7% and 5.6% respectively, according to Imperva.
"It's very encouraging to see such a decline in stolen credit card data and passwords. It suggests that more organizations are using basic security tactics such as Multi-factor Authentication, which makes it much harder for outside cyber attackers to gain the access required to breach data," says Terry Ray, SVP and Field CTO at Imperva.
"It's really concerning that 32% of data breaches are down to unsecured databases and social engineering attacks, since they're both straightforward to mitigate," continues Ray.
Limited visibility into all data repositories - Businesses need a single dashboard solution that can provide insight on a broad range of data security capabilities, including data discovery and classification, monitoring, access control, risk analytics, compliance management, security automation, threat detection, and audit reporting.
Visibility over all cloud-managed data repositories through a single dashboard eliminates the need to maintain configurations for data visibility.
Not learning from past data breaches - Organizations should be using machine learning to do rigorous analyses of anomalous behavior to identify malicious activity.