1,000 cases of data breach recorded by ICO

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» 30 May 2010

1,000 cases of data breach recorded by ICO

About 1,000 cases of data infringement and losses were recorded by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ever since it was first established. In line with this, a strict note was sent to all the organizations that they must provide perfect protection on the data that are being entrusted to them.

Men are answerable to the faults in protection

According to David Smith, the Deputy Commissioner of ICO, the cases wherein data are lost are actually due to nothing but mistakes of the handlers themselves. In this case, the companies should be more cautious so as to prevent confidential data from being corrupted by unauthorized individuals.

ICO thinks that there are available solutions

In addition, the process of protecting data will become successful only if the people working for the company are well-educated when it comes to the importance of protecting private information and the procedures of safeguarding the data.

For added protection, ICO suggest that the agencies formulate comprehensive and understandable steps in security and data disclosure that workers can easily comprehend. Also, strict implementation should always be done by the members of an agency’s team.

In actual fact, the agency with the most noted number of cases is the NHS. There are about 305 recorded situations of lost or stolen personal information from this organization. And, there are over 288 occasions of the same cases reported from the private groups.

A manual can sometimes aid agencies

The full report of the incidents is written on ICO’s “ICO Security Breaches Report”. The Deputy Commissioner added that the companies should read the given guide because it contains helpful pointers that can assist the agencies in preventing unlawful leak of information.

Firm implementation is not enough

But then, the chief executive of the encryption firm Stonewood Chris McIntosh believes that the ICO’s recommended steps are insufficient. Educating the workers of the organizations is inadequate in cases like the ones stated above. This is because of the fact that in the end, the members of the staff will be held responsible for any possible data loss.

McIntosh believes that all the accountabilities will be transferred to the workers because of this kind of system. Hence, it is not enough that the organizations enforce their security guidelines at all times because an encouraging act is also required in order to make things work out well.

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