title: Verizon Business Data Breach Report link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/verizon-business-data-breach-report/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 499 created: 2008/06/19 20:37:42 created_gmt: 2008/06/19 20:37:42 comment_status: open post_name: verizon-business-data-breach-report status: publish post_type: post

Verizon Business Data Breach Report

The folks over at Verizon’s Business RISK team have published a report on the results of over 500 data breach investigations they’ve done over a four year period.

The Data Breach Investigations Report page has links for downloading a pdf copy of the report, as well as for a webinar where it was discussed by some of the participants.

Key statistics in the “Who is behind data breaches” category:

73% resulted from external sources
18% were caused by insiders
39% implicated business partners
30% involved multiple parties

Here’s some food for thought from the “What commonalities exist” category:

66% involved data the victim did not know was on the system

75% of breaches were not discovered by the victim

83% of attacks were not highly difficult

85% of breaches were the result of opportunistic attacks

87% were considered avoidable through reasonable controls

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