Approximately 656 data breaches occurred in 2008 accounting for nearly 3.7 million lost records; costing businesses more than $4.4 billion. In today’s digital world it is nearly impossible to prevent a breach due to the number of individuals that have access to breach worthy information within your company walls.

• Do you have protocols for access to personal content?
  Most companies allow key personnel to access personal content, and occasionally take the content home to their personal residences.
  
  
• Does your company supply laptops for your employee’s mobile use?
  While in your employees personal possession at home or on the move, personal content could be vulnerable via lack of wireless internet security, theft of the laptop, or malicious acts to retrieve such information.
  
  
• Do you have a wireless network within your company?
  Wireless networks can be very vulnerable to hackers. This was displayed vigorously by past breaches such as TJX.
  
  
• What safety measures are in place to stop disgruntle personnel from sharing personal company information?
  Once accessed, sensitive company information can be viewed, copied, and possibly misused.
  
  
• How is the information stored on your company’s hard drives disposed of?
  When deleting information from a hard drive or reformatting, the possibility still remains that the information is accessible.
  
  
• Does your website contain personal content that maybe hidden to the average user, but viewable to an advanced user?
  Websites can contain hidden files that may be accidentally posted (For example a spreadsheet containing employee SSN). Unless searched for regularly, files like these can be overlooked.

It has been reported that most breaches are internally caused due to lack of procedure, preparation or the unfortunate case of sheer dishonesty by an employee within the organization. NIDR offers an industry differentiating pre-breach solution that will protect your company against the possible disaster of breached information.

Our Breach Deterrent Solutions include :