INFOGRAPHIC
“
COMPANIES IN
THE HEALTHCARE,
FINANCIAL
SERVICES AND
RETAIL SECTORS
WERE THE
PRIMARY TARGETS
FOR BREACHES
LAST YEAR.
were impacted, resulting in a 73% increase
from 2016.
Internal threats are increasing
The number of malicious insider incidents
decreased slightly. However, the amount
of records stolen increased to 30 million, a
117% increase from 2016.
Nuisance breaches
Identity theft is still the number one
type of data breach The number of records breached in nuisance
type attacks increased by 560% from 2016.
The Breach Level Index defines a data
breach as a nuisance when the compromised
data includes basic information such as
name, address and/or phone number. The
larger ramification of this type of breach is
often unknown, as hackers use this data to
orchestrate other attacks.
Identity theft was 69% of all data breach
incidents. More than 600 million records Jason Hart, Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer for Data Protection at
www.intelligentcio.com
Gemalto, said: “The manipulation of data or
data integrity attacks pose an arguably more
unknown threat for organisations to combat
than simple data theft as it can allow
hackers to alter anything from sales numbers
to intellectual property.
“By nature, data integrity breaches are often
difficult to identify and, in many cases where
this type of attack has occurred, we have yet
to see the real impact.
“In the event that the confidentiality
or privacy of the data is breached, an
organisation must have controls such as
encryption, key management and user
access management in place to ensure that
integrity of the data isn’t tampered with and
can still be trusted.
“Regardless of any concerns around
manipulation, these controls would protect
the data in situ and render it useless the
moment it’s stolen.” n
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