Interim Information Security Breaches Survey 2010

Every two years since the early 1990s, the UK Department of Trade and Industry (and its successor department, BERR, now the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (“BIS”)have sponsored a survey on information security practices and incidents in the UK.

Infosecurity Europe, in conjunction with PwC and BIS are carrying out the interim 2010 Information Security Breaches Survey covering the most important questions from the last survey in 2008. This sessions will announce the findings from the survey including:

- The nature and impact of the worst security breach in the last year
- How security is managed within the organisation (including awareness training)
- Steps taken to prevent data loss (e.g. what data is encrypted)
- Use of software as a service and how this use is controlled
- Use of social networking sites and how this use is controlled
- Future outlook