Rarely does a week pass that yet another data breach appears on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse website, and those are only the breaches that are publicly disclosed.

What’s interesting to note is that data breaches are exactly that: an egress of data. Of course, this is nothing new; for over a decade now, we’ve heard countless stories of bank accounts emptied through surreptitious keystroke loggers and successful phishing scams (who can forget such gems as, “I represent the Central Bank of Nigeria, and I have a lucrative proposal for you…”), healthcare data breached due to poor security controls, and systems brought down for extended periods via denial of service attacks from zombie hosts managed by vast-reaching command-and-control systems. Keep reading →