Data Breaches Top the Agenda at RSA Conference
Information Today, Vol. 25, No. 6, p. 19, June 2006
3 Pages Posted: 26 Jun 2010
Date Written: June 2006
Abstract
Data breaches remain a significant problem for any company that manages personally identifying information. In recent weeks, widely publicized data breaches have hit Lending Tree, Hannaford Brother’s grocery company, and the Bank of Ireland. Data breaches at Choice Point, TJX Companies, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have resulted in large, class-action lawsuits with claims for – or in some cases settlements in – the millions of dollars.
At the April 2008, RSA Conference in San Francisco, a number of speakers addressed both technical and legal aspects of the data breach problem. The Conference, sponsored by data security company RSA, was attended by over 17,000 people and featured over 200 sessions on information security issues, including data security technology, strategies and compliance challenges, and legal and governmental issues. It was in this latter context that a number of speakers addressed the data breach challenge.
Keywords: data breaches, intellectual property, data security, information industry, lawsuits, electronic crime, cybercrime, hacking, information systems, computers
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