In the last two years, over 100 million private data records have been lost or stolen according to the Privacy Rights Clearing House. The Ponemon Institute estimates the average cost of a data breech in 2006 at $182 per record, but the impact of a privacy breech on an enterprise goes beyond the dollar costs involved to include damage to a company's brand image, potential fines and lost customers.
Scentric's data privacy assessment tool discovers data from several pre-set categories, including:
- Confidential
- Copyright
- Credit cards (Master, Visa, Amex, Discover)
- Social security numbers
- Objectionable content
- Payroll information
- Health information
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