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• Rise in data breaches drives interest in cyber insurance

  Companies became much more interested in insurance policies after an incident affected them, study found

• The CFO's Role in the Data Breach War

  Finance, working with IT, increasingly must manage the serious risks, from planning to handling fallout.
  

• Australians would speak out against a company data breach: Survey

  Legal action, exposure and closing accounts are some of the responses Australians would take if their data was compromised by a company, according to a global survey conducted by Unisys.
  

• Breach reporting: Now companies have to do it

  Consumer advocates as well as many business groups have attempted to get federal laws adopted in the United States that would mandate disclosure of security breaches in which some types of private information about identifiable people are exposed. In spite of the obvious logic of having a national standard, these efforts so far have failed.

• Verizon's 12-step program for thwarting data breaches

  Verizon's just-released "2011 Data Breach Investigations Report" says businesses could prevent  most data breaches if they stick to security principles that are cheap and easy to implement.

• Tokenisation: Five things CIOs need to know

  Tokenisation replaces protected data with a digital placeholder that applications use just as they would real Social Security or credit card numbers. But if you're hacked, the data is useless to criminals.

• SecTor 2010: Why security is the enemy of privacy

  As we noted in last year's CSO article, "Six ways we gave up our privacy," people are increasingly -- and willingly -- throwing their privacy to the wind, thanks to an addiction to Google apps, GPS devices, the BlackBerry, iPhone and Android, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Some security experts believe privacy is dead already.

• In data breaches, keeping number of records lost secret can protect stock prices

  When companies publicly declare that they have suffered a data breach, it's best not to reveal how many individual records were involved if they don't want to take a hit in their stock prices, according to a study.