How soon before YOU experience data/identity theft?

An excellent and timely article: It's amazing that breaches and thefts keep happening. Considering "what goes around, comes around", I wonder how soon any one of us has personal experience with identity theft? It's also interesting that reactive measures don't concentrate on the obvious solution - a proactive treatment and training of people, and reinforcements to their corresponding security awareness. In those regards, there is a defined eCulture called "The Business-Technology Weave" that helps to influence employee behaviour as regards security, use and integrity of data - as well as protection of hard assets (such as laptops). This is particularly relevant: www.businessforum.com/DScott_02.html . Some good stuff here too: www.david-scott.net . We use his book at work - stupid mistakes like deleted and misplaced data have dropped tremendously. Our CEO even requires our vendors to read it. It's making a huge difference.

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