A report released Wednesday from the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) found that more than 90 percent of the data breaches that occurred from January to June 2014 could have been prevented, MediaPost reports. The OTA’s 2015 Data Protection Best Practices and Risk Assessment guides found 40 percent of the thousands of breaches analyzed were due to external intrusions; 29 percent by employees—either accidentally, maliciously or due to a lack of controls—and 18 percent resulted from lost or stolen devices. The report recommends companies enforce effective password management with multi-factor authentication and permit only authorized wireless devices to connect to company networks, among other recommendations.
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