Novell Threat Assessment

The assault on consumer data from hackers, thieves, or poor employee decision making is costing companies now more than ever before. Recovery from critical data loss can be staggering, but loss of customer confidence could be devastating to your organization.

Since 1995, nearly 220,000,000 records containing sensitive customer information have been exposed through security breaches. Those are just the losses that have been reported. Corporate damage due to malware was over $13 bln in 2007. In 2007, the average cost for an organization to recover from data breach was $6.3 million.