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Businessweek Infographic Illustrates The Pounding We Took In 2011

2012-01-03 – 06:03
Posted in Breach, Information Security, Metrics
Tagged Businessweek, Computer network security, Computer security, Computing, Data breach, Data security, datavis, Evan Applegate, infographic, Information graphics, metricshulk, Secure communication, Security

Another #spiffy tip from @MetricsHulk:

METRICS HULK GLAD HE NO HAVE TO SMASH BUSINESSWEEK FOR DATALOSSDB 2011 YEAR IN REVIEW INFOGRAPHIC http://t.co/yLqYOkD5 http://t.co/NAIXGcGa
— Metrics Hulk (@MetricsHulk) January 3, 2012

Evan Applegate put together a great & simple infographic for Businessweek that illustrates the number and size of 2011 data breaches pretty well.

(Click for larger version)

The summary data (below the timeline bubble chart) shows there was a 37.4% increase in reported incidents and over 260 million records exposed/stolen for the year. It will be interesting to see how this compares with the DBIR.

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