A recent survey of health care organizations shows that the percentage experiencing a patient data breach is up. What seems to be causing this increase? According to the report: the increased usage of mobile devices.

While laptops and other mobile devices have allowed for improvements in service and provided a new level of efficiency, they have also lead to a new level of security vulnerability. The survey shows that 27% of respondents had at least one security breach in the past year (up from 19% in 2010).

Whether protecting your PC at home or defending your company’s functionality as the head of the IT department, the following will help protect the health of your computer system in 2012.

The seventh annual US Cost of a Data Breach report, conducted by Ponemon Institute and Symantec Research, shows that the cost of individual data breaches is actually decreasing. And, not just by a small amount.

The average cost of a breach dropped a whopping 24% from $7.2 million in 2010 to $5.5 million in 2011

This is the first time that researchers have ever seen a decline.

Did you know that the average data breach costs a company $7.2 million, or $214 per breached record? Are you doing everything you can to protect your customer data (the information you use to ship your products, serve your customers, get new customers or file taxes)? Follow these steps to help protect your data...

A recent study by Boyd Cos, a data security consulting company, showed that cities like Sioux Falls and Omaha are prime locations for future high-security data centers. The lower costs of operation, available and qualified workers, fiber-optic capacity, insulation from natural disasters and other factors puts Sioux Falls as the number 1 candidate for new data centers.

Find out which passwords are considered the most common and dangerous thanks to this infographic.