As the number of identity theft victims continues to mount, so has the amount of data and information related to such events - and the time and resources devoted to better understanding, analyzing and devising measures that can better prevent such occurrences, as is seen in Part 1 of this series.
"The stakes are already quite high when it comes to data loss: According to Gartner and the Ponemon Institute, the loss of a single record - not financial fraud - is around (US)$197. If you take the extremely conservative estimate from the same research that said that in 2007, 127 million records were lost, you get around $25 billion in direct losses," noted Uriel Maimon, senior researcher for security firm RSA.
