Your biggest problem? People.

Organizations in every industry sector — private and public — need to step up to the plate and develop comprehensive risk management strategies that include strong ongoing data protection and security awareness programs to help protect the PII and other sensitive information of their customers, clients and employees.

As Barbra Streisand sang, "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world." Unfortunately, they're also the major cause of data breaches.

Organizations — as we reported in parts one and two of this study — could drastically reduce and prevent most internal and many external data breaches if they implemented risk management strategies with ongoing data protection and security awareness programs to educate all employees and third parties.

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