Rhonda Childress of IBM recently wrote in Forbes, “There’s been no shortage of companies in the news for data leaks in the past decade as a result of hacking, inside jobs, poor security and other reason. My personal credit card information was compromised twice in 2015 because of data breaches, and in each case, I had to get a replacement card and closely monitor accounts to determine fraudulent charges.
It’s a frustrating experience that makes consumers wonder whether they’re doing something wrong. In many cases, though, security failures are outside an individual’s control. On an individual consumer level, data breaches can cause a lot of frustration; on a corporate scale, they can be catastrophic.”
