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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

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Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. By 2012, there was a marginal increase, then the numbers rose steeply in 2014. How can businesses protect themselves from unpredictable and evolving attacks on data?

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How To Improve Incident Response Time for Data Breaches

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Take the Marriott data breach in 2014, for example. Before Marriot acquired the Starwood hotel group, Starwood suffered a major data breach of its customer database. Luckily modern solutions exist that arms organizations with the necessary tools to avoid these kinds of data breaches.