Latest Privacy Studies
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Date Reference Popularity
05/18/2012 Finding A Strategic Voice: Insights from the 2012 IBM Chief Information Security Officer Assessment - IBM 0.26%
05/15/2012 Internet Security Threat Report, 2011 Trends - Symantec 0.62%
05/10/2012 The 2012 Bit9 Cyber Security Research Report - Bit9 0.16%
05/08/2012 2011 Data Breach Notifications Report - Masschusetts Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation 0.62%
05/01/2012 The State of Data Protection: Research Report - Varonis 0.62%
04/26/2012 The Data Loss Straw Pole: What Keeps You Up at Night - CDW 1.45%
04/25/2012 2012 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data - Kroll Advisory Solutions 0.21%
04/18/2012 What Do Online Behavioral Advertising Disclosures Communicate to Users - Pedro Giovanni Leon, Justin Cranshaw, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Jim Graves, Manoj Hastak, Blase Ur and Guzi Xu - CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University 0.67%
04/16/2012 Tax Returns Expose Social Security Numbers to Public - Identity Finder 0.41%
04/12/2012 2012 Global Study on Mobility Risks: Survey of IT & IT Security Practitioners - Ponemon Institute 0.62%
04/11/2012 Blue Coat Systems 2012 Web Security Report - Exposing Malnet Strategies and Best Practices for Threat Protection - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. 0.47%
04/05/2012 IBM X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report - IBM 0.16%
04/02/2012 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report - Verizon 1.96%
03/28/2012 Search Engine Use 2012 - Kristen Purcell, Joanna Brenner and Lee Rainie, Pew Internet Project 0.16%
03/27/2012 Social Networks in the Workplace Around the World - Proskauer Rose LLP 0.72%
03/23/2012 2011 Cost of a Data Breach Study: United States - Ponemon Institute 1.96%
03/23/2012 State of Security 2012 - McAfee 0.83%
03/22/2012 Privacy and Security: The New Drivers of Brand, Reputation and Action - Global Insights 2012 - Edelman 1.55%
03/22/2012 FTC - Using FACTA Remedies: a Staff Report on a Survey of Identity Theft Victims 0.62%
03/19/2012 The Human Factor in Data Protection - Ponemon Institute 1.09%
03/16/2012 Verizon 2011 Investigative Response (IR) Caseload Review - Verizon 0.62%
03/14/2012 2011 Global Encryption Trends Study - Ponemon Institute 1.24%
03/09/2012 Governance of Enterprise Security: CyLab 2012 Report - Jody R. Westby, CyLab 0.36%
03/08/2012 2011 Mobile Threats Report - Juniper Networks 0.62%
03/06/2012 Data Security in Small Healthcare Organizations - Ponemon Institute 0.16%
03/05/2012 McAfee Threats Reports: Fourth Quarter 2011 - McAfee Labs 0.83%
03/02/2012 Trustwave Global Security Report 2012 0.62%
03/01/2012 BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard - Business Software Alliance 0.83%
03/01/2012 The Impact of U.S. Internet Privacy Regulations on Early Stage Investment: a Quantitative Study - Booz & Co. 0.52%
02/23/2012 A New Era In Information Security and Cyber Liability Risk Management - Advisen Ltd. 0.67%
02/20/2012 2011 Survey of IT Professionals - Password Practices and Outcomes - Lieberman Software Corporation 0.88%
02/15/2012 Report on Consumer Behaviours and Perceptions of Mobile Security - NQ Mobile & National Cyber Security Alliance 0.93%
02/13/2012 Breach Report 2011 - Protected Health Information - Redspin 0.78%
02/09/2012 The Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Security: a Survey of IT Professionals - Dimensional Research and Check Point 1.29%
02/03/2012 Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites - Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen Purcell, Kathryn Zickuhr and Lee Rainie - Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project 0.26%
02/01/2012 Aftermath of a Data Breach Study - Ponemon Institute 2.02%
01/31/2012 The Application Usage and Risk Report: An Analysis of End User Application Trends in the Enterprise - Palo Alto Networks 0.36%
01/18/2012 Trends in Security of Data Recovery Operations - Ponemon Institute LLC 0.31%
01/12/2012 Raising the Bar: 2011 TMT Global Security Study - Key Findings, Deloitte 0.26%
12/23/2011 Inviting Patients to Read their Doctors' Notes: Patients and Doctors Look Ahead - Jan Walker et al. - Annals of Internal Medicine 0.57%
12/15/2011 State of Software Security Report: Volume 4 - Veracode 0.05%
12/14/2011 2012 State of the Endpoint - Ponemon Institute 0.83%
12/13/2011 Hacker Intelligence Initiative, Monthly Trend Report 6 - Imperva 0.41%
12/13/2011 Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security - Ponemon Institute 0.31%
12/09/2011 Reputation Impact of a Data Breach: U.S. Study of Executives & Managers - Ponemon Institute 2.12%
12/01/2011 The Most Vulnerable Smartphones of 2011 - Harry Sverdlove, Bit9 0.36%
12/01/2011 Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 1H2011 - APWG 0.16%
11/29/2011 Managing Firewall Risks in the Cloud - Ponemon Institute 0.88%
11/28/2011 Why Parents Help Their Children Lie To Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act' - Danah Boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz and John Palfrey, First Monday 0.36%
11/28/2011 Ultimate 5 Top Malicious Spam Subjects - Security Labs 0.26%
11/22/2011 Why Johnny Can't Opt Out: A Usability Evaluation Of Tools to Limit Online Behavioral Advertising - Pedro G. Leon, Blase Ur, Rebecca Balebako, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Richard Shay, and Yang Wang, Carnegie Mellon University 0.57%
11/18/2011 Best Practices in Data Protection: Survey of US IT and IT Security Practitioners - Ponemon Institute 0.98%
11/17/2011 Healthcare Information Security Today - Information Security Media Group 0.52%
11/16/2011 Into the Cloud, Out of the Fog - Ernst & Young's 2011 Global Information Security Survey, Ernst & Young 0.98%
11/16/2011 Unisys Security Index: US - Wave 2H' 11 - Lieberman Research Group 0.16%
11/10/2011 A New Era in Information Security and Cyber Liability Risk Management - Advisen 1.03%
11/10/2011 Security Pros & Cons: IT Professionals on Confidence, Confidential Data and Today's Cyber-Cons - Websense Research 0.67%
11/09/2011 Insider Threat Control: Using Centralized Logging to Detect Data Exfiltration Near Insider Termination - Michael Hanley and Joji Montelibano, Carnegie Mellon 0.21%
11/01/2011 Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - Microsoft 0.57%
10/28/2011 I Know Where You Are and What You Are Sharing: Exploiting P2P Communications to Invade Users' Privacy - Stevens Le Blond, Chao Zhang, Arnaud Legout, Keith Ross, Walid Dabbous - Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the National Institute for Research in Computer Science & Control 0.21%
10/13/2011 The Demographics of Privacy: A Blueprint for Understanding Consumer Perceptions and Behavior - The Lares Institute 1.19%
10/13/2011 IBM X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report - IBM 0.93%
10/12/2011 Verizon 2011 Payment Card Industry Compliance Report - Verizon 0.62%
10/12/2011 Results of the 2011 Thomson Reuters Board Governance Survey - Kimberley Allan, Thomson Reuters 0.57%
10/03/2011 Consumerization of IT: A Survey Of IT Professionals - Dimensional Research 0.83%
09/26/2011 The State of Email Encryption - Ponemon Institute 3.62%
09/19/2011 Symantec Intelligence Report: August 2011 - Symantec 0.78%
09/16/2011 The Leaking Vault 2011: 6 Years of Data Breaches - Suzanne Widup, Digital Forensics Association 1.86%
09/15/2011 The Shocking Scale of Cybercrime, Norton 0.52%
09/15/2011 The Failure of Online Social Network Privacy Settings - Michelle Madejskiy, Maritza Johnson, and Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University, futureofprivacy.org 0.36%
09/12/2011 2011 State of Security Survey - Global Findings, Symantec 0.88%
09/09/2011 2011 Survey of Patient Privacy Breaches - Veriphyr 0.31%
09/08/2011 McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2011 - McAfee Labs 0.31%
09/07/2011 Mobile Threat Report - Lookout Mobile Security 2.17%
09/07/2011 Bit9 Endpoint Security Survey 2011, Bit9 0.26%
08/26/2011 Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study - Ponemon Institute 2.07%
08/25/2011 2Q Threat Roundup - Trend Micro 0.93%
08/25/2011 Tracking the Trackers Microsoft Advertising - Jonathan Mayer, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School 0.26%
08/23/2011 2010 Annual Study: Global Cost of a Data Breach, Ponemon Institute 2.43%
08/12/2011 The State of USB Drive Security - U.S. Survey of IT and IT Security Practitioners - Ponemon Institute LLC. 1.19%
08/11/2011 Behavioural Advertising and Privacy - TRUSTe 1.65%
08/09/2011 2011 ISUG Report On Data Security Management Challenges - International Sybase User Group 0.36%
07/21/2011 Study Finds 12.5% of Companies Violating Own Do-Not-Track Policies - Jacqui Cheng, ars technica 0.36%
07/15/2011 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors 0.62%
07/12/2011 Role of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance in Organizations - Ponemon Institute 3.15%
07/11/2011 2010 Energy and Resources Global Security Study - Deloitte 0.36%
07/11/2011 Child Identity Theft: New Evidence Indicates Identity Thieves are Targeting Children for Unused Social Security Numbers - Richard Power, Carnegie Mellon CyLab 0.26%
07/08/2011 Mobility and Security - Dazzling Opportunities, Profound Challenges - McAfee 0.88%
07/07/2011 Understanding Security Complexity in 21st Century IT Environments - Ponemon Institute 0.57%
07/06/2011 2011 AVG Community Powered Threat Report 0.62%
07/01/2011 Perceptions About Network Security - Ponemon Institute 0.62%
06/30/2011 Privacy Leakage vs. Protection Measures: The Growing Disconnect - Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs-Research, Konstantin Naryshkin, and Craig E. Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 0.78%
06/28/2011 2011 State of the Net Survey - Consumer Reports 0.62%
06/23/2011 Malicious Mobile Threats Report 2010/2011 - Juniper Networks 1.34%
06/23/2011 2011 Survey Results: The State of Government Information Security Today - GovInfoSecurity 0.57%
06/20/2011 2011 ISACA Survey - IT Risk / Reward Barometer 0.62%
06/13/2011 Unisys Security Index: United States - Lieberman Research Group 0.26%
06/08/2011 Social Media: Understanding User Patterns and Compliance Issues - The Lares Institute 0.88%
06/06/2011 The Failure of Online Social Network Privacy Settings - Michelle Madejski, Maritza Johnson, and Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University 0.62%
05/23/2011 FPF Finds Nearly Three-Quarters of Most Downloaded Mobile Apps Lack A Privacy Policy - Shaun Dakin and Shreya Vora, Future of Privacy Forum 0.31%
05/11/2011 Smart Privacy for Smartphones - TRUSTe 0.88%
05/06/2011 Top Business/Technology Issues Survey Results 2011 - ISACA 0.41%
05/05/2011 Security of Cloud Computing Providers Study - Ponemon Institute 0.98%
04/29/2011 2011 PCI DSS Compliance Trends Study - Ponemon Institute 0.36%
04/29/2011 In the Dark - Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks - McAfee 0.10%
04/25/2011 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report - Verizon 0.83%
04/21/2011 AdChoices? Compliance with Online Behavioral Advertising Notice and Choice Requirements - Saranga Komanduri, Richard Shay, Greg Norcie and Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University 0.10%
04/14/2011 Underground Economies: Intellectual Capital and Sensitive Corporate Data Now the Latest Cybercrime Currency - McAfee 0.36%
04/13/2011 IBM X-force 2010 Trend and Risk Report - IBM 0.26%
04/12/2011 Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report: Highliting Global Security Threats and Trends - Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.05%
04/11/2011 Standardizing Privacy Notices: An Online Study of the Nutrition Label Approach - Patrick Gage Kelley, Lucian Cesca, Joanna Bresee and Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University 0.05%
04/06/2011 March 2011 Intelligence Report - Symantec 0.16%
03/22/2011 Privacy and Security in Health Care: A Fresh Look - Deloitte 1.34%
03/16/2011 2010 Annual Study - Cost of a Data Breach - Ponemon Institute 0.93%
03/15/2011 2011 ISC2 Global Information Security Workforce Study - ISC2 0.16%
03/08/2011 A Survey of the Use of Adobe Flash Local Shared Objects to Respawn HTTP Cookies - Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University 0.47%
03/08/2011 Location-Based Services: Time for a Privacy Check-In - American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California 0.41%
03/03/2011 Trustwave Global Security Report 2011 0.62%
02/24/2011 The True Cost of Compliance - A Benchmark Study of Multinational Organizations - Ponemon Institute 0.98%
02/14/2011 Borderless Security - 2010 Global Information Security Survey - Ernst & Young 0.31%
02/11/2011 Health Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking - Ponemon Institute LLC 0.10%
01/20/2011 PCI DSS Survey - Cisco Security Solutions Marketing 0.16%
01/07/2011 The Faces of Fraud: Fighting Back - 2010 Survey Results - Information Security Media Group 0.05%
12/14/2010 Secure Your Network - 2010 Top Cyber Security Risks Report, HP 0.05%
11/24/2010 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends - Ponemon Institute LLC 0.67%
11/23/2010 Borderless Security: Global Information Security Survey - Ernst & Young 0.21%
11/19/2010 Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security - Ponemon Institute 0.16%
11/17/2010 Security Awareness Research - Clear Swift 0.05%
10/04/2010 Global Threat Local Pain: 2010 Strategic Security Survey - Michael A. Davis, Information Week 0.21%
09/20/2010 National Survey on Identity and Privacy in Social Media - Ponemon Institute 0.05%
09/01/2010 2010 SMB Information Protection Survey - Symantec 0.05%
08/27/2010 Web 2.0 Security in the Workplace: Study of IT practitioners in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France & Japan - Ponemon Institute LLC 0.05%
08/12/2010 First Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Benchmark Study of U.S. Companies - Ponemon Institute LLC 0.05%
06/23/2010 7th Annual Survey: Network and System Administrators - Amplitude Research, Inc. 0.05%
06/09/2010 Corporate End User Survey: Employee Online Behavior - Trend Micro 0.16%
05/28/2010 How Global Organizations Approach the Challenge of Protecting Personal Data - Accenture 0.41%
05/14/2010 Retail Email Unsubscribe Benchmark Study: An End-to-End Examination of the Opt-out Practices of the Top Online Retailers - Chad White, Responsys 0.36%
05/12/2010 Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report Analyzing Global Security Threats and Trends - CISCO Systems, Inc. 0.21%
04/21/2010 Ponemon Institute - 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach 0.05%
03/25/2010 Brandjacking Index 2009: The Year in Review - MarkMonitor 0.10%
03/19/2010 Ponemon Institute - Privacy and Data Protection Practices: Benchmark Study of the Financial Services Industry 0.31%
03/15/2010 Ponemon Institute - 2010 Human Factor in Laptop Encryption: US Study 0.05%
03/10/2010 Data Loss Barometer Issue 2: Insights Into Lost and Stolen Information in 2009 - KPMG 0.31%
02/02/2010 Trustwave's Global Security Report 2010 - Trustwave 0.16%
01/18/2010 Outpacing Change - Ernst & Young's 12th Annual Global Information Security Survey 0.05%
01/11/2010 Measuring the Impact of Employee Fraud within Financial Services - Actimize Inc. 0.10%
12/22/2009 2009 Data Breach Investigations Supplemental Report, Anatomy of a Data Breach - Verizon Business 0.05%
11/25/2009 2009 HIMSS Security Survey - Symantec 0.16%
10/29/2009 2009 Encryption and Key Management Industry Benchmark Report - Trust Catalyst 0.88%
10/28/2009 The Global State Of Information Security 2010 - PricewaterhouseCoopers, CIO Magazine and CSO Magazine 0.05%
10/23/2009 State Of Technology Security: Top 10 Biggest Security Threats - ChannelWeb 0.21%
09/29/2009 Ponemon 2009 PCI DSS Compliance Survey - Sponsored by Imperva 0.21%
09/22/2009 The Device Dilemma: The Tug of War Between Employees' Mobile Demands and IT's Security Needs - Good Technology 0.10%
09/18/2009 Insider Risk Management: a Framework Approach to Internal Security - Brian Burke and Christian Christiansen, RSA 0.10%
09/09/2009 Regulations Shift Focus On Outbound Email Security - Proofpoint Inc. 0.41%
08/25/2009 Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention in Today's Enterprise, 2009 - Proofpoint 0.26%
07/20/2009 Securing Unstructured Data: How Best-in-Class Companies Manage to Serve and Protect - Aberdeen Group 0.26%
07/17/2009 Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data - Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 0.21%
06/26/2009 2009 Identity Management Trends in Healthcare Survey Research Brief - Imprivata Inc. 0.05%
06/17/2009 Trends In Insider Compliance With Data Security Policies - Ponemon Institute Sponsered By IronKey 0.16%
06/05/2009 Identity Theft: The Aftermath 2008 - Identity Theft Resource Center 0.05%
06/03/2009 Losing Ground - 2009 TMT Global Security Survey - Deloitte 0.05%
05/11/2009 Protecting What Matters: The 6th Annual Global Security Survey - Deloitte 0.26%
04/20/2009 Data Governance Strategies: Helping Your Organization Comply, Transform, and Integrate - Philip Russom - The Data Warehousing Institute 0.05%
03/31/2009 OWASP Security Spending Benchmark Project Report 0.31%
03/25/2009 Managed Security In The Enterprise (U.S. Enterprise) - Symantec 0.05%
03/16/2009 Gartner Says 7.5 Percent of U.S. Adults Lost Money as a Result of Some Sort of Financial Fraud in 2008 - Gartner Research 0.10%
02/11/2009 Deloitte - 2008 Global Security Survey 0.10%
02/04/2009 2008 Annual Study - Cost of a Data Breach - Ponemon Institute 0.31%
02/01/2009 Privacy White Lists - Don't be Fooled (2009) - U.S.A Privo and TRUSTe - Chris Connolly, Galexia 0.21%
01/20/2009 Data Leakage Worldwide: Common Risks and Mistakes Employees Make - Cisco 0.16%
01/13/2009 A Comprehensive Study of Retail Data Security Breaches in the United States - Kevin Prince - Perimter eSecurity 0.16%
01/12/2009 2008 Breach List and Statistics - Identity Theft Resource Center 0.05%
01/09/2009 Safeguarding The New Currency of Business - PWC: Findings From the 2008 Global State of Information Security Study 0.10%
01/08/2009 The Driving Motivations of Stakeholders in the Delivery of Privacy by Enterprises - C. Nickel, T. Sander and P. Bramhall - Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 0.16%
12/12/2008 Data Backup For Small and Medium Businesses: Priorities, Current Practices and Risks - Symantec 0.05%
12/10/2008 CREDANT Technologies Releases Results From Healthcare Security Survey - Business Wire 0.05%
11/26/2008 Keeping the Subscriber Experience Positive After "Unsubscribe Me" - ReturnPath.net 0.26%
11/26/2008 2008 Annual Report: IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance - IT Policy Compliance Group 0.21%
11/24/2008 Managing Encryption: The Keys to Your Success - Derek Brink - Aberdeen Group 0.16%
11/21/2008 2008 The Global State of Information Security - CIO, CSO, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers 0.05%
10/29/2008 Browser Privacy Features: A Work In Progress - CDT Report - Center for Democracy and Technology 0.16%
10/23/2008 Secure/Managed File Transfer: Why Best-in-Class Companies are Saying it's a "Must Have" - Carol Baroudi - Aberdeen Group 0.41%
10/22/2008 Continuously Compliant: Ensuring Proactive, Comprehensive Compliance - Stephen M. Walker II - Aberdeen Group 0.05%
10/15/2008 The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies - Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor 0.16%
08/07/2008 Identity Theft Red Flags Rule Survey - BankInfoSecurity.com 0.10%
07/31/2008 Enterprise IT Security Strategies Ignore Use of Personal Smartphone Devices by Employees - GuardianEdge 0.05%
07/08/2008 Compliant Information Destruction: Inside Corporate America - Iron Mountain 0.21%
07/01/2008 The State of E-mail Security - TechWeb Research Survey 0.05%
06/23/2008 StrongMail and Ponemon Institute Survey Reveals Risks to Customer Data Introduced by Marketing Practices and Perceptions - Marketwire 0.10%
06/19/2008 Survey Reveals Scandal of Snooping IT Staff - Cyber-Ark Software Ltd. 0.05%
04/16/2008 Consumers' Report Card on Data Breach Notification - Ponemon Institute 0.05%
11/30/2007 Password Management Survey - Siber Systems 0.05%
05/08/2007 Training for Quick Privacy Wins - Ted Frank, SC Magazine 0.05%
02/06/2007 Computer Forensic Study By Fulcrum Reveals Computer Hardware Sellers Are Selling More Than Expected 0.16%
   

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