Employee Data More Vulnerable Than Constituent Data
Personal information about employees is more than twice as likely to be compromised in government security breaches than is constituent data, according to an online survey released by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The survey also found that most governments don't keep accurate inventories of where their data is stored in their organization.
PwC, in partnership with CIO and CSO magazines, conducted the Global State of Information Security 2008 survey from March 25 to June 26, 2008. It included more than 7,000 CEOs, chief financial officers, CIOs, chief security officers and other high-level respondents from 119 countries via e-mail. Five hundred fifty-three came from the public sector, but PwC would not disclose how many came from U.S. government.
Forty-two percent of the public-sector respondents reported that employee data was more likely to be impacted by security breaches than constituent data. Only 19 percent reported otherwise.
