TORONTO -- More than one-third of Canada's IT professionals know -- for sure -- that they'd had a significant data breach over the previous 12 months that could put their clients or their organizations at risk, a cybersecurity study suggests.
And as startling as that statistic may be, the actual number of breaches could be higher since the same international study found 56 per cent of the 236 Canadian respondents said they believed threats sometimes fall through the cracks.
"Even the best-protected networks have regular security incidents," says Jeff Debrosse, director of security research for Websense, a U.S.-based security company that commissioned the study.