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Great New Site for Data Loss Statistics

There is a great new site, etiolated.org, that takes the privacy breach data accumulated by attrition.org and parses it into some very interesting statistics, trends charts, provides areas for commentary, and lots of other interesting and useful information.

Information assurance folks, use this type of data to validate the need for you to have sufficient resources to establish effective safeguards throughout your organizations.

The links provided to the sites with detailed information about each of the breaches is a very nice feature of the site.

BTW, for those of you curious what "etiolate" means...I know I was...according to Merriam Webster it means...

"1 : to bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight 2 a : to make pale b : to deprive of natural vigor : make feeble"

Check it out!

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on May 15, 2007 6:09 PM |

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Great resources for those suffering from the "it won't happen to me" condition! I really like websites that keep up with and list reported security breaches all in one place. Statistical analysis is just icing on the cake! Thanks for another wonderful resource, Rebecca.

Posted by: Mila | May 21, 2007 3:41 PM

You're welcome! :)

Yes, I love the statistical representations, too; the graphs can often have so much more impact than numbers alone.

Posted by: Rebecca | May 23, 2007 2:02 PM

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.