SAN FRANCISCO – A new Web site could help turn security breach guesswork into science. Database breaches, social engineering attacks, and hacking incidents happen at companies every day, but very few end up being reported publicly. That’s because organizations fear-and rightly so-damage to their reputation, public humiliation, and loss of customer confidence.
But this silent victim syndrome means that others can’t learn from the missteps of victims and that the industry as a whole doesn’t have a good grasp on the scope of the problem.
In a first-of-its-kind effort, Verizon Business is launching a public Web site for reporting security incidents that could crack open the self-defeating secrecy of data breaches.
“This will benefit the overall community,” Alexander Hutton, a principal of research and intelligence at Verizon Business, told CNET in an interview. “The valid data helps us all learn from mistakes.”
Verizon is officially launching today its Veris information-sharing site where network or security professionals can provide detailed information about an incident and get back a report that illustrates via charts, graphs, and other information how the reported incident compares with others.
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