Interactive Data Breach Map - Zoom into local breaches

  

Today, we introduced the new Voltage Data Breach Index, a single at-a-glance view into the state of national and global data breaches. A visual map brings data breach reporting to life, summarizing historical and real-time breaches, size and scope, types of records, regions affected, industry and more. Perhaps most interesting is that patterns in the data enable the creation of a predictive data breach model. This model predicts, for example, that 14 data breaches will, over the next year, each expose 1,000,000 or more records to potential use by criminals. And, at least one breach of over 10,000,000 records will affect nearly 5 percent of the U.S. population.  You can read more about the details of the analysis here.

Digitally used and stored data is now part of every economic sector and the applications that touch our daily lives. Organizations entrusted with our personal information should have a responsibility to protect it beyond what’s mandated by regulatory compliance laws, industry standards and directives. The goal of the Voltage Data Breach Index is to make data loss reconnaissance more widely available and easier to understand. It should serve to educate organizations about the risks they, their customers and other constituencies face. And it should advocate the value of end-to-end encryption, with an industry call-to-action of this as critical mandate—not simply something that’s “nice to have.” Technologies coming to market are changing the game by making it faster, cheaper and easier to achieve.

We worked very closely with the Open Security Foundation's DataLossdb.org, which provides independent, accurate, detailed, current, and unbiased security information. DataLossDB's goal is to provide accurate and unbiased information about breaches of personally identifying information when lost by or stolen from third parties. DataLossDB is a searchable database that promotes research and the sharing of information by professionals and enthusiasts alike. Data is acquired from verifiable media and government resources and is open for community participation.

We hope the Voltage Data Breach Index map and predictive analysis tool will become standard for measuring and anticipating data breach activity and, ultimately, a powerful instrument for preventing future losses. We believe the need has existed for some time; there have been virus maps for many years and they've proven valuable in illustrating threats and trends. The new frontier is the large and rapidly growing area of data theft and fraud.

Please visit www.voltage.com/data-breach for more information and feel free to link/embed the map to your blog or website - just click on embed or use the badge to copy the necessary code snippet.