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Cost of a Data Breach - Dr. Larry Ponemon, Ponemon Institute

Published: Jan. 22, 2010, 9:37 p.m.

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What\'s the cost of a data breach?\\n\\n

The Ponemon Institute is out with its 5th annual "Cost of a Data Breach" study, and in an exclusive interview Dr. Larry Ponemon discusses:\\n\\n

The current cost of a data breach - and how it\'s risen since 2009;
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Data breach trends across industry;
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What organizations should do to respond to or prevent breaches.
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Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy auditing and the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework.\\n\\n

Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University\'s CIO Institute. He is a Fellow of the Center for Government Innovation of the Unisys Corporation.'