A recent study has shown that the majority of businesses and companies don’t have plans in place to regularly update their cybersecurity despite a year of very public data breaches. Only 22% of businesses and companies review and update their data breach response plans at least once per year. The remaining percentage either has no set time period for updating their plans or haven’t reviewed or updated their data breach response plans since they were put into place!
With all the attention on the data breaches at Home Depot, Target, and other big box stores along with the reports of health care data being compromised at hospitals, that these companies would take notice and improve. As a consumer, now you must do what you can to protect your data since these companies are in a state of catch-up. You can certainly do your part by staying alert of potential identity theft threats along with writing emails to the corporate offices of the stores you shop at to air your concerns. For more information on this troubling trend, click here:: The persistent threat of data breaches
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