Interhack Presents Data Breach Study Findings to American Bar Association Information Security Committee

(February 27, 2010) Interhack Founder Matt Curtin presents the findings of an analysis of five years' worth of breach data, showing correlations between breach type and industry.

February 26, 2010—Interhack Founder C. Matthew Curtin presents the findings of an analysis of five years' worth of breach data, showing correlations between breach type and industry. He will speak at the Information Security Committee meeting of the American Bar Association Law and Technology section on Saturday February 27 in San Francisco, California. 

Applying the findings, Curtin then discusses with the committee how to help corporate clients prepare for and prevent data breaches. 

The original Interhack research presented is from Using Science to Combat Data Loss: Analyzing Breaches by Type and Industrypublished in Volume 4, Issue 3 (Winter 2008–09) of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. In San Francisco, Curtin presents updated findings that include two more years of breach data.

About Interhack

Based in Columbus, Ohio, Interhack Corporation is a computer expert firm with practices in Information Assurance and Forensic Computing.  Founded in 1997 by a team of information security researchers, Interhack works to make global computing and communications infrastructures worthy of trust.  Today the firm has clients all over North America.  Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.