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The information security landscape

17%

3.1   

4.4    

209   

1588  

57%  

23%   

58%  

40%

77%

60%

45%

Our training and awareness solutions are designed to minimise risk, to ensure knowledge is retained over the longer term and to give you the confidence that your people are applying it to protect personal information every day

So you have locked down your IT systems; but what are your people doing with confidential papers?

So you have prevented the copying of personal information to removable media, but what's already out there?

So you have trained your staff in the eight data principles and communicated where they can find your policies and procedures - but what premium do they really put on personal information?  Theirs, your customers, your colleagues?

The value people appear to place on personal information

The effectiveness of traditional training

Data breaches

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The financial costs to organisations following a breach

the average cost to organisations per record lost following a breach

the range of fines imposed by the Financial Services Authority on those firms found in serious breach

the year in which new powers are expected to be come into force enabling the Information Commissioner's Office to impose 'substantial financial penalties on organisations where there is evidence of reckless or deliberate data protection breach'

the increase in the number of UK organisations reporting a breach

the average number of breaches per annum reported by financial services firms

the average number of breaches per annum reported by public sector bodies

the number of breaches reported by NHS Trusts to the ICO over two years

the median number of patient records compromised per breach by NHS Trusts

the proportion of total reported data breaches that have arisen from lost or stolen data or laptops

the proportion of total reported data breaches that have arisen from erroneous disclosure of information

the proportion of total reported data breaches that have originated from the private sector and NHS

the volume of knowledge typically forgotten within 20 minutes of completing traditional training

the volume of knowledge typcially forgottten within 6 days of completing traditional training

the proportion of people who will divulge their personal information to strangers in exchange for a bar of chocolate

the proportion of people will disclose their passwords to strangers in exchange for a £5 gift voucher

(Similar research conducted in New Zealand late in 2009 bore similar results)!

 £60

£1m - £3m

2010