Has anyone gotten ahold of the report yet?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dissent</b> <<a href="mailto:Dissent@pogowasright.org">Dissent@pogowasright.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Australian-based analyst Hydrasight has teamed up with Colorado-based<br>researcher Enterprise Management Associates Inc. (EMA) to release a
<br>study on the current state of global enterprise information security.<br><br>The report draws a comparison between the theft or breach of<br>confidential information and computer-facilitated financial fraud and<br>the impact it has on organizations in terms of share price. While the
<br>organizations studied were based in the U.S., the findings reflect a<br>similar security environment in Australia.<br><br>Scott Crawford, senior analyst with EMA, said within four weeks of<br>public disclosure of details of an information breach, negative
<br>responses show up in the form of falling share prices. The impact can<br>be disturbing, he added.<br><br>"EMA recently followed the closing stock prices of six US companies<br>which had disclosed an information security breach between February
<br>2005 and June 2006.<br><br>"Within a month of disclosure, the average price of these stocks fell<br>by 5 percent, and remained in a range of 2.4 to 8.5 percent below<br>that of the date of disclosure for another eight months," he said.
<br><br>"The stocks did not recover to pre-incident levels for nearly a year."<br><br>[...]<br><br><a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/43234/data-leaks-hit-share-prices-hard.html">http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/43234/data-leaks-hit-share-prices-hard.html
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</a><br>Tracking more than 136 million compromised records in 403 incidents over 6 years.<br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>