Is Security Spending Keeping Pace?
Cybersecurity Tom Kemp Cybersecurity Tom Kemp

Is Security Spending Keeping Pace?

In my last two blog posts, I looked at the trend lines vis a vis data breaches from a number of annual reported breaches and compromised records, including factoring out the impact of major whale breaches. The caveat of course is this is based on what’s publicly reported.

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How Badly are Data Breach "Whales" Impacting the Breach Trend Lines?
Cybersecurity Tom Kemp Cybersecurity Tom Kemp

How Badly are Data Breach "Whales" Impacting the Breach Trend Lines?

Shortly after posting “Data Breaches: So How Bad is it Getting?“, it dawned on me that it might be interesting to factor out the big “whale” breaches (e.g. Yahoo! in 2016 with 3+ billion compromised records) to get a feel for what “run rate” breach rate really is in terms of compromised records. So consider this blog post an addendum to that blog post.

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