Continuing losses of personal data points to need for cultural change.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 January 2008-THE OPEN UNIVERSITY: Continuing losses of personal data points to need for cultural change(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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As Government unearths yet more losses of personal data, Darrel Ince, Professor of Computing at The Open University, says he believes that "the cases of data loss so far are really the tip of a large iceberg of systematic security failing which encompasses many organisations, not just central Government.

"While a very small proportion of information security breaches are malicious, the vast majority, more than 70% of all cases are caused inadvertently by staff who have been encouraged to place their trust in secure technology rather than thinking more carefully about their...