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Carphone Warehouse has just been fined £400,000 by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a result of a 2015 data breach.
Another month, another high-profile attack… or so it seems at the moment. The latest in the long line was US data firm Equifax – with a breach that affected more than 143 million American consumers. Even if you aren’t holding that much customer data, how do you recover from a breach like that?
A lot of people believe that the password is an invention of the age of computing, a necessary part of securing IT systems from hackers and other malevolent forces – intentional or unintentional. In truth, the password is about as old as human civilisation.
Many businesses consider cyber threats as external forces, attempting to penetrate their defences from the outside in. In truth, however, threats often originate from within.
This time last year, we were contemplating 2015 as the year of the data breach. We were taking stock and trying to learn the lessons so that we could better protect ourselves and our businesses from the growing threat of hackers. And then 2016 happened.