Centennial Article: Bad business processes behind most losses

Bad business processes behind most losses

Bad business processes are behind most data losses, rather that malicious attacks, according to businesses.

At the RSA security conference, people who had adopted data loss prevention (DLP) software early on said that business processes were to blame for most information loss cases, according to Crn.com.au.

The rise in amounts of DLP software on the market, which brings together data discovery, classification and policy management products, has highlighted the need to protect sensitive data when it is moved or changed.

Tony Spinelli, chief security and compliance officer at Equifax, a credit agency, said that incorporating the software into their business raised many data issues.

"It brought it home to us that people had no idea that we even had a data use policy. The issues that arose were not about malicious activity, but about old, bad business processes," he said.

A recent survey revealed that companies and the government are not protecting their customers' data, as an "alarming" number of breaches occurred last year, according to the information commissioner.

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