Ponemon Institute news from FierceCIO

Cybercriminals have a new method to their madness. They are targeting the online bank accounts of small and medium sized businesses at unprecedented rates. A new survey by the Ponemon Institute and... Read more...

What good is having a super security system to protect your company against cyberattacks, if you still leave the back door open? A new Ponemon Institute report identified just that problem when it... Read more...

There's a red flag going up for IT executives who need their computers fixed. While plenty of organizations have an in-house IT shop to handle repairs, many smaller companies do not, and they rely on... Read more...

Most IT practitioners don't think their company has adequate policies to manage threats to data in development environments, according to a new survey by the Ponemon Institute. Seventy-five percent... Read more...

A new study by the Ponemon Institute finds that many employees are engaging in sloppy behavior that could jeopardize a firm's data security. Nearly 70 percent of the 967 IT professionals surveyed... Read more...

The numbers are quite disturbing, and should be sobering for CIOs whose operations have been hit hard by the economic downturn. A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute found an alarming degree of... Read more...

A survey of 945 individuals who were laid off, fired or quit their jobs in the past 12 months found that 59 percent admitted stealing company data and 67 percent said they used their former company's... Read more...

Companies that experienced a data breach in 2008 paid an average of $6.6 million last year to rebuild their brand image and retain customers. A new study by the Ponemon Institute, a Tucson-based... Read more...

Traveling by air these days is not always a pleasant experience. For many, it seems, losing a laptop can be added to the problems of long security lines, flight delays and higher ticket prices. A... Read more...