Reining in runaway data breach costs

By Nicholas Economidis. Dealing with data breaches can cost a university from tens of thousands of dollars up to many millions, depending on the breach and its handling. In 2011 the largest reported data breach in the university world was suffered by a Virginia institution of higher learning, which reported more than 176,500 records breached. More recently, in late 2012, a Florida university suffered a breach involving data on more than 200,000 students and some of the university's top employees. More...