Information Security: You Can’t Afford to Ignore it

The statistics on identity theft are, frankly, pretty scary. According the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2014 alone 17.6 million Americans were the victims of identity theft, meaning the unauthorized use or attempted use of an existing account, unauthorized use or attempted use of personal information to open a new account, or the misuse of personal information for a fraudulent purpose.

And that’s just personal identity theft. Then there are the gigantic corporate data hacks that make the headlines. Some of the biggest recent years are truly mind-boggling, including retailers Home Depot (56 million records) and Target (70 million records), health insurer Anthem (80 million records), bank JP Morgan Chase (76 million records), and Ebay (145 million records).

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