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Asian firms can do more to protect data

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Dissent

Vivian Yeo reports:

Despite greater awareness among businesses in Asia on the need to protect data assets, security breaches seem to be on the increase across the region over the past year.

Claudio Scarabello, Verizon Business’ senior global product manager for security product marketing, said in an e-mail interview that data breach incidents appeared “to have increased greatly in Asia” between 2009 and 2010.

“When the Albert Gonzalez sentence was published in the U.S., there was a sharp downturn in cases in the [country] and a corresponding jump in cases in the Asia-Pacific,” said Scarabello. “At one stage, we had three independent cases come in on the same day from one Asian country.”

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