In the UK there is a legal requirement to state if public authorities suffer data breaches: this is not quite the case in the UK , so it is disturbing to discover that April 2014 and April 2014 the UK 's local government bodies suffered two-thirds data breaches according to this report by CensorNet . Phil Greenwood, Director at information risk management specialist at Iron Mountain was also on hand to offer his thoughts on the report: “The frequency and severity of the incidents highlighted underlines the need for public sector organisations to have the right processes in place when it comes to managing and protecting critical and confidential information. In at least 4,236 of the cases no disciplinary action of any sort was taken, and in only one case did the action result in a court case.
In the UK there is a legal requirement to state if public authorities suffer data breaches: this is not quite the case in the UK , so it is disturbing to discover that April 2014 and April 2014 the UK 's local government bodies suffered two-thirds data breaches according to this report by CensorNet . In at least 4,236 of the cases no disciplinary action of any sort was taken, and in only one case did the action result in a court case.