Data Breaches: Is Your Attitude About Data Security Putting You And Your Company At Risk?

With all of the recent data breaches, the nervous jitters among those who have spent time ordering new credit cards or signing up for credit monitoring are no surprise.  The possibilities of what might happen seem overwhelming and with no easy cure, action perhaps seems too daunting. 

The threats are daunting because we have for too long relied on others to make our on-line experiences safe.  At home we might not see the need to install anti-virus software, use encryption, or set-up a secure WiFi network.  At work, we assume these are just issues for the information technology department.

What we fail to recognize is that the most significant threat is people making bad decisions because they have little knowledge about data security.  Our collective reliance on someone else plus a defeatist attitude predicts failure.  If we don't think about security at home, then the burden of security protections seems unnecessary at work.