Intro to Data Leakage

Organizations spend years fighting Intrusions, Spam, Trojans & Viruses. Nowadays, these organizations are finding themselves against a new but very dangerous security issue which is data leakage. As per IDC Survey (International Data Corporation which is an international survey and research company) in 2008, It was shown that By March 2008, that about 80% of survey respondent said that one of the big challenges facing them is the Data Security with 50% of them admitting that they had experienced a Data Leakage incident in 2008. It is a big threat facing the organizations. Solutions & Ways should be urgently done to get rid or eliminate the risk of it. The accidental and intentional leakage of data, ranging from unauthorized files to the legally protected personal information and trade secrets, is a risky thing that affects the organizations and its IT environments

Data Leakage Definition:

It is the unwanted, intentional or accidental leak & loss of data related to the organization without the authorization of it. Add to that, it is the compromise of availability or confidentiality of data (electronic or hard copy)

In this blog, I'll be concentrating on highlighting the big role that internal & users' errors play in increasing Data Leakage and putting the company more on risks & threats