How secure is your personal data?

In the last three months we have seen issues arise with respect to the privacy of personal data and within the last few days one prominent citizen has indicated that their Facebook account was “hacked”. It begs the question how secure is our personal data and credit card information? In todays environment just having a demilitarized zone (DMZ), HTTPS and a VeriSign logo is not sufficient. These need to be supported by frequent vulnerability test, application of relevant security fixes, encryption and key management solutions to ensure that information in case of theft is unusable for the attacker and analytics to identify potential fraudulent transactions before the good or service is provided . Last but not least a security incident response team to address suspicious activity or suspected intrusions.

In October 2015 T-Mobile reported that confidential financial data for 15 million of its US customers was stolen from a server hosted by a third party. Also The Trump Hotel Collection reported a security breach of the credit cards used at certain hotels. With hackers working around the clock customers should be concerned about the data stored with their providers. Using a scale of 1 – 10 how confident are you that your personal data is secure?