IBM reports that the global average total cost of a data breach in 2022 was $4.35 million. Data breaches are rising each year, with an ever-increasing cost, so it’s absolutely essential to be prepared and proactive in your data protection strategy. When clients provide personal or business data to an MSP, they expect the provider to have proper policies and procedures in place to protect that data.
Yesterday, CircleCI, a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) service, notified the world it had been breached via a critical advisory from its CTO. As a major software delivery pipeline service, CircleCI users store myriad credentials for various services in CircleCI’s “Secrets Store” infrastructure.
Despite the best efforts of individuals to protect their own data, they cannot always account for the cybersecurity shortcomings of larger organizations such as their employers, financial institutions, and healthcare providers entrusted with their personal information. Hotels should also be added to this list of vulnerable entities, as was made painfully apparent in the most recent Marriott data breach.