Beware, your data is still on sale

In a recent Global Security Survey conducted by Deloitte, 56% of respondents reported that they'd had data breach trouble more than once in the past year with a trusted vendor.While a lot of "post mortem" followed, the obvious measure to be implemented finds little or no mention.

Providers of information are primarily responsible for its appropriate use. This is more important in case of outsourced processing where a third party has access to lot of sensitive information. How are the providers (Clients) ensuring that the information is used only for the purpose it was provided and once the purpose is served, is not available even to the recipient?

We have highlighted this need in our older blogs, but looking at the recent reports of data theft in outsourcing( thestar.com, dbusinessnews.com) the question to ask is ...Is anybody listening?!