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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...

Recently the Ponemon Institute completed a new project, the Security Efficiency Benchmark Study, the purpose of which was to learn what IT security leaders in the UK and Eu...

Recently the Ponemon Institute completed a new project, the Security Efficiency Benchmark Study, the purpose of which was to learn what IT security leaders in the UK and Eu...

A few years ago, when wireless networking was still relatively new, there were numerous reports of enterprising employees who, frustrated with the pace of new technology in...

Have you ever seen an interactive advertisement while browsing around on the Web and, even though it was from a brand that you recognized promoting a product, service or ev...

We recently completed some new research with Accenture in which we were surprised to find that, in spite of all the attention being paid to data protection, and in spite of...

Independent Ponemon Institute research looks into the controversial behavioral advertising industry to understand from marketers their experience with the medium’s su...

We just completed a survey of federal IT security professionals to examine the data protection posture of government agencies. Through the survey, sponsored by CA, we ...

How data privacy perceptions and practices around the globe inform and influence data protection practices. More than 5,500 business leaders were surveyed....

Ponemon Institute with sponsorship from IBM conducted a study of Web 2.0 users in the US, Brazil, Russian Federation, People's Republic of China, Singapore, Sweden and Germ...

This second annual study examines access governance practices in US organizations. The objective of this study is to track perspectives of IT security and compliance practi...

Today we held a RIM College event featuring three noted experts in corporate privacy training programs -- namely, Dean Forbes (Merck), Bob Posch (Merck) and John Block (Med...

We are pleased to present The State of Privacy and Data Security Compliance study conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Sophos. The purpose of the study is to det...

I am delighted to share with you our recently completed benchmark study that focuses on healthcare organizations and their ability to comply with new regulations. Of 7...

The eGovernment movement is a good thing, and maybe too long in coming given how many years businesses have been taking advantage of technology to provide convenience and a...