Lock Up the Shop...and Your MFP

The First Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study from the Ponemon Institute, a research center dedicated to privacy, data protection and information security policy, found that the median annualized cost of cyber crime is $3.8 million per year. Combined with the Information Week Analytics' Strategic Security Survey—which reports that more than one-third of business tech and security professionals anticipate that their organizations will be the target of some form of security breach or espionage—it's easy to see why companies are re-evaluating their data protection technologies and policies.