44 percent of organizations don't meet deadlines for reporting data breaches

While 75 percent of organizations set fixed time limits for investigating potential security incidents, many of them fail to meet their investigating and reporting targets. According to a study from contextual security technology company Balabit 44 percent of respondents report missing internal or external deadlines for investigating or reporting a breach in the last year, and seven percent say a missed deadline had resulted in serious consequences. "The Balabit survey identified that the primary reason for not being able to investigate data breaches in time is that organizations still do not understand their own data," says Péter Gyöngyösi, product manager… [Continue Reading]