Greg is a former Department of Homeland Security adviser on cyber security issues in the Obama Administration. He focused on cyber security, counter-terrorism, and community resilience communications.
Data breaches are a matter of “when,” not “if” they will happen. Recently Saks Fifth Avenue was breached and customers’ personal information was exposed on its website. Other well-known companies like McDonald’s and Forbes, and numerous public figures have been recent victims of Twitter hacks. Read more
This is especially true, she says, when mainstream news media coverage of technology increasingly plays up threats from cyber-crime including data breaches, identity theft, and loss of privacy. Read more
Of all the Crisis categories – natural disasters, human error, ethical lapses, product recalls -Cyber is growing the fastest and exponentially. A report by non-profit Identity Theft Resource Center shows from 2014 to 2015:
Breaches rose from 783 to 3,930
Records exposed jumped from 85 million to 736 million
Estimated financial losses from compromised records leaped from $400 million to $14.9 billion
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