Protecting customer records is a magnitude less expensive than paying for cleanup after a data breach or massive records loss, a research company said Tuesday. Gartner analyst Avivah Litan said in a research note that data protection is cheaper than a data breach. She recently testified on identity theft at a Senate hearing held after the Department of Veterans Affairs lost 26.5 million vet identities. . "A company with at least 10,000 accounts to protect can spend, in the first year, as little as $US6 per customer account for just data encryption, or as much as $US16 per customer account for data encryption, host-based intrusion prevention, and strong security audits combined," Litan said in an accompanying statement. The link for this article located at ITNews.com is no longer available. . 'A company with at least 10,000 accounts to protect can spend, in the first year, as little as $US6 . protecting, customer, records, magnitude, expensive, paying, cleanup, breac. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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