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A recent survey on information security and privacy protection found many companies fail to comply with standards set by the credit card industry
TORONTO (09/25/2009) - Over half the organizations queried in a recent survey say they don't even try to secure, let alone secure, sensitive information about people or families.
Examples of such information are bank account data, driver's license numbers, and Social Security numbers (corresponding to the Social Insurance Number used in Canada).
The survey queried 560 U.S. and multinational organizations. It was conducted by Imperva, a data security company, and the Ponemon Institute, an independent organization that conducts research into privacy and information security policy.
According to the survey, only 28 percent of smaller companies—those with 501 to 1,000 employees—say they comply with the international Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which focuses largely on IT (information technology) and Internet security. In contrast, more than 70 percent of large merchants—those with 75,000 or more employees—say they comply with the standard.
"If you go the larger organizations to do business, you are more likely to be secure today," said Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman.