Companies fear data breaches caused by compromised credentials

[Mihir :-)]

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http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/04/27/companies-fear-data-breaches-caused-by-compromised-credentials/

Data breaches are being linked mostly to compromised credentials, a Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) report has found.

Surveyed security professionals indicated that compromised credentials are the most common cause of past data breaches, as well as the most likely cause of possible data breaches in future.

As for past data breaches, 17% of the survey’s respondents indicated that their company had reported at least one in the past. Of those, nearly a quarter (22%) was caused by compromised credentials, according to the respondents.

As for the risk of a future data breach, 65% of respondents indicated that the likelihood their company would experience one due to compromised credentials as medium to high.

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[jamescv7]

Of course data breaches are big headache cause its already violated the privacy and secrecy. As always; improving the system and infrastructure to avoid worst case scenario.