Why isn't Europe suffering a wave of security breaches?
June 17, 2006
Jay Cline
Did you hear the one about the German company that had the big security breach? Probably not, because security breaches don't dominate the headlines in Die Welt, Le Monde or El Pais like they do in USA Today. Our national preoccupation with identity theft has no equivalent in the Old World. So what's the rub? Are Europeans that much better at privacy and security than we are?
That wasn't the finding of a survey recently released by Ponemon Institute LLC and the law firm White & Case LLP. They asked 47 U.S. and EU multinational companies about eight aspects of their privacy practices: privacy management, data security methods, communications and training, privacy policy, choice and consent, cross-border data transfer, privacy compliance, and customer-dispute resolution. It was the first survey of its kind that I've seen. What did it discover?
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/
Did you hear the one about the German company that had the big security breach? Probably not, because security breaches don't dominate the headlines in Die Welt, Le Monde or El Pais like they do in USA Today. Our national preoccupation with identity theft has no equivalent in the Old World. So what's the rub? Are Europeans that much better at privacy and security than we are?
That wasn't the finding of a survey recently released by Ponemon Institute LLC and the law firm White & Case LLP. They asked 47 U.S. and EU multinational companies about eight aspects of their privacy practices: privacy management, data security methods, communications and training, privacy policy, choice and consent, cross-border data transfer, privacy compliance, and customer-dispute resolution. It was the first survey of its kind that I've seen. What did it discover?
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/