Elinor Mills reports:
A new Web site could help turn security breach guesswork into science.
Database breaches, social engineering attacks, and hacking incidents happen at companies every day, but very few end up being reported publicly. That’s because organizations fear–and rightly so–damage to their reputation, public humiliation, and loss of customer confidence.
But this silent victim syndrome means that others can’t learn from the missteps of victims and that the industry as a whole doesn’t have a good grasp on the scope of the problem.
In a first-of-its-kind effort, Verizon Business is launching a public Web site for reporting security incidents that could crack open the self-defeating secrecy of data breaches.
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