Deeper Dive: Beware Of Paper Records

BakerHostetler's 2016 Data Security Incident Response Report reveals a number of interesting incident response trends: the range of incident causes is broad, all industries are affected, detection capabilities need to improve, it is difficult to provide meaningful notification quickly, and regulatory investigations are more common than lawsuits after notification occurs. One of the report's interesting tidbits is that 13 percent of the more than 300 incidents that we handled in 2015 involved paper records. An additional 2 percent of the incidents involved both paper and electronic records. And 25 percent of the healthcare incidents we handled in 2015 involved paper records. This rebuts the common assumption that data security incidents are all about electronic data.