Data protection continues to be a hot topic, according to a report from safety measure vendor Proofpoint, as large-scale breaches of personal knowledge continue to come to light and as the regulatory environment becomes more sophisticated.

Proofpoint surveyed 301 e-mail decision makers at U.S. enterprises with more than 1,000 employees. Forty-one percent of organizations with 20,000 or more employees employ staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound e- mail. Overall, more than one quarter (29 percent) of companies

surveyed employ such staff. More than one in three (38 percent) perform regular audits of outbound e-mail.

Forty-four percent investigated a suspected e-mail leak of confidential or proprietary data in the past 12 months. Forty percent investigated a suspected violation of privacy or goods protection regulations.

Twenty-three percent said their business was impacted by the exposure of sensitive or embarrassing info in the last 12 months. Eighteen percent said they had been […]

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