We have seen a concerning pattern in the recent data breaches, including the breach at the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) and other US government agencies in that the primary target was Social Security Numbers (SSN) and other Personal Identifying Information (PII). Criminals typically started by stealing data from smaller, less protected organizations and then used that data to attack larger but better protected organizations.
Organizations handling SSN and other PII should secure all sensitive data across all data silos, but medium-sized enterprises in particular face the following challenges.
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