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To help IT security professionals plan for an increasingly mobile electronic workforce, Websense, Inc. and Ponemon Institute have created this Global Study on Mobility Risk...

What Senior Executives Think about Data Protection, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM, was conducted to determine what corporate executives believe a...

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the results of The Human Factor in Data Protection. Sponsored by Trend Micro, this research focuses on how employees and other ...

We are pleased to present the findings of the Aftermath of a Data Breach  conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Experian® Data Breach Resolution. Th...

Widespread use of mobile devices is putting patient data at risk, according to the latest Ponemon Institute research on healthcare providers' patient privacy practices.Whil...

Our study reveals that even among banks with the highest level of consumer trust, it only takes one or two large data breaches to diminish a trusted relationship. Our findi...

Sponsored by McAfee, the Best Practices in Data Protection survey is our latest effort to find out what separates the best organizations from the rest. We believe this stud...

Despite widespread awareness of the impact of cybercrime, cyber attacks continue to occur frequently and result in serious financial consequences for businesses and governm...

Today we released our Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study.  Our findings support other research studies suggesting increases in the frequency, severity and overall...

Ponemon Institute is releasing our annual Most Trusted Companies for Privacy study this coming week.  This is the eighth year that we conducted a U.S. national consume...

The US healthcare industry is undergoing a period of sweeping reforms designed to improve patient care and reduce costs through the adoption of electronic health records th...

Last week with CA Technologies we issued the results of a study of cloud service providers and their views on cloud security. There has been a lot of interest in this study...

Last week I presented the results of our latest study entitled, "The State of IT Security: A Study of Utilities and Energy Companies." Sponsored by Q1 Labs, this research r...

Sponsored by Thales eSecurity(download the study) The purpose of this study was to identify what auditors think abut crypto technologies as it applies to data protection an...

Most privacy advocates and people in the data protection community believe that data breach costs will start coming down eventually because consumers will become somewhat i...

Dear friends and colleagues, Please listen to a recent podcast on the True Cost of Compliance study completed last month.  Martin KcMeay at Network Security Blog did a...

The Cost of Data Center Outages study is the first benchmark study that attempts to estimate the full costs associated with an unplanned data center outage. This benchmark ...

Understanding Security Complexity in 21st Century IT Environments: A study of IT practitioners in the US, UK, France, Japan & Germany, sponsored by Check Point Software...

Have you ever noticed how some organizations wield compliance like a club when marketing their products or services? They remind you of the latest in information secur...

THE COST OF NON-COMPLIANCE CAN BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN INVESTING IN COMPLIANCE ACTIVITIES While the average cost of compliance for the organizations in our study is $3.5 mil...

It has been more than six years since the ChoicePoint data breach thrust the issue of privacy protection into the headlines. Since then hundreds of information securit...

I hear the collective sound of our friends, colleagues, and other interested parties scratching their heads at the release of the most recent piece of Ponemon Institute res...

Ponemon Institute and Emerson Network Power are pleased to present the results of the National Survey on Data Center Outages . The purpose of this study is to determine the...

Just a brief note to bring our recent webinar to your attention.  I presented Information Governance in the Cloud along with the good people at Symantec.  Th...

Holistic is a popular word these days. Often applied to food and medicine, the word conjures images of natural, healthy living, but the word holistic refers to the fun...