Breaches are a personal nightmare for corporate security pros

Beyond the compromise of valuable information, loss of revenues and damage to brand reputation, data breaches can pose a threat to the careers of security professionals involved: witness the sudden departures of both the CEO and the CIO of Target after last year’s compromise of 40 million customers’ credit cards.

job in the company today because you have little legal guidance while facing an increasing barrage of attacks from the outside,” she says. “The environment changes on a dime.”

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