Tom Field, Editorial Director

Verizon Business investigated 90 major databreaches in 2008, including 285 million compromised records. Nearly ¾of those breaches were external hacks, and 99.9 percent of the recordswere compromised via servers and applications.
These are among the findings of Verizon's new 2009 Data BreachInvestigations Report. In an exclusive interview, Dr. Peter Tippett, VPof Technology and Innovation at Verizon Business, discusses:

The survey results;

What these results mean to financial institutions and government entities;
Which threats to watch out for most in the coming months.

Tippett is the chief scientist of the security product testing andcertification organization, ICSA Labs, an independent division ofVerizon Business. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led thecomputer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as avendor of security products, and over the past 16 years, as a keystrategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercialanti-virus product that later became Norton AntiVirus.


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