IT intelligence: Data security

By Robin Fisk, Third Sector, 28 May 2008

Robin Fisk introduces hacking in the latest in a series on data security.

A 2006 survey by US data security company Palisade Systems found that hacking was the second most common cause of data loss after human error. Of the organisations that had experienced a data breach, 34 per cent had lost data as a result of someone hacking into their systems. But...

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