The Winner of the 2007 "Do as I Say Not as I Do" Award goes to Forrester Research.
Turns out that in November 2007 an employee of Forrester had their notebook stolen from their home.
Problem. The names addresses and Social Security numbers of past and present employees were on the notebook. Was the file encrypted or the notebook password protected? As yet we don't know.
Read the article for yourself at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2228887,00.asp .
If you google the terms "Forrester Research" and "Data Breach" ( http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=data+breach+Forrester+Research&btnG=Search&meta=) you find out that Forrester is one of the high tech industry's consultant companies. A Gartner competitor. They sell hi-tech consulting and research reports to large firms. They have published quite a few papers on the subject of data breaches and security and one would assume that they would have taken a little more care with their own data.
I wonder if any of the Fortune 1,000 firms who spent good money on data breach and security reports from Forrester will be asking for a refund?
James Gingerich
Sr Partner Account Manager
Sybase iAnywhere
jgingeri@ianywhere.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesg2006
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