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Machine learning creates a profile of expected email contacts and turns on a stop sign when new people pop up.
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78% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the past 12 months and 75% think employees have put data at risk intentionally. "While they acknowledge the sustained risk of insider data breaches, bizarrely IT leaders have not adopted new strategies or technologies to mitigate the risk. Effectively, they are adopting a risk posture in which at least one-third of employees putting data at risk is deemed acceptable."
Number of records exposed in healthcare breaches doubles. According to the findings, the total number of records breached more than doubled from 2018 to 2019.
The breaches, which had been unreported, only came to light in January when Conservative MP Dean Allison demanded that the country's federal government produce a report for the Canadian House of Commons, according to the CBC. The 800-page report contained details about agency breaches in 2018 and 2019. In the report, the government admitted that agencies responsible for national defense, healthcare, tax revenue, postal service and immigration all sustained data breaches or accidentally exposed citizen data.
One is a big new category that we saw emerging in 2019 was not a true data breach per se, but what we're calling a data exposure, or you may also have heard the term data lake, and that's where some businesses just forgot to put a password on their cloud environments. If you can't keep up with all those passwords, use a password manager.
The Identity Theft Recource Center warns that businesses of all sizes should be vigilant about data security.
More than 15.1 billion records were exposed in 2019 as part of the data breaches that were publicly reported, Risk Based Security reveals. There were "Three breaches that compromised 1 billion records or more exposed transaction logs," but the number of impacted people is much lower than the 7.6 billion exposed records.
In 2019 the total number of records exposed increased by 284% compared to 2018, according to Risk Based Security. In total, there were over 15.1 billion records exposed shattering industry projections.
Japanese defense contractors Pasco and Kobe Steel this week disclosed cyber intrusions they suffered back in 2016 and 2018. Pasco is Japan's largest geospatial service provider and Kobe Steel is a major steel manufacturer.