Expert: Russian personal, pay info leak cases rocket 80% in 2016

MOSCOW, Jun 8 (PRIME) -- Leakage of sensitive information from Russian companies and the government 80% in 2016 to 213 cases, while a total volume of compromised data swelled more than 100 times to 128 million records, but was below 4% of the world’s leakage, group InfoWatch, focusing on information security, said on Thursday in a research.

“Our country is deeply integrated into global processes of informatization, of the business, the government, and society, and it is a source of advantages and problems, which brings such integration,” analyst Sergei Khairuk said.

“Data leakage probability rises with the growth of information value. In fact, we’ve crossed an invisible line, beyond which the loss of information from a company became ordinary. In order to manage risks linked to information security, in addition to technical means of protection, it is necessary to take organizational measures, improve the level of ‘information hygiene’ of employees who may be unaware now of an illegal character of their activities.

“A combination of control over information and people working with it is the most optimal. It’s evident that it won’t work to protect everything from everyone. One should concentrate on the most valuable assets, ‘problematic’ channels of transfer and employees susceptible to the risk of compromising data.”

In nine out of 10 cases, leakage contained personal data and pay information.

In comparison to the rest of the world, Russia features a higher level of so-called “qualified” data leakage, when perpetrators deliberately use stolen information for personal gains or get access to the information unrequired for their duties.

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