And one of them may be a blissful ignorance of your company's data breach risks.
The survey, which was funded by cybersecurity firm Ounce Labs, asked 213 senior executives about their perceptions of data breach risks.
Another study released in January 2016 by Information Systems, Audit and Control Association ISACAA) shows that most organizations are having trouble filling cybersecurity jobs, which leads to greater vulnerabilities and higher data breach risks.
Because TigerText is addressing the increased proliferation of SMS in workplace communications, especially those where text messaging traditionally hasn't been industry-compliant (and can pose data breach risks), Brooks says that the company has been able to achieve its third consecutive year of triple-digit sales growth.
If LastPass, or any company that stored passwords in encrypted form, were to suffer a data breach, the risk would be that the thieves could apply a brute-force attack at their leisure, offline, methodically trying every possible combination of characters until a match was found.
"Washington law is clear: When a data breach puts people at risk, businesses must inform them," Ferguson said in the release.
Over 40 asylum seekers are now preparing appeals against their deportation, claiming the data breach puts them at risk of persecution in their homelands.
"Businesses must notify the ICO within 72 hours of a data breach taking place, if the breach risks the rights and freedoms of an individual.
Ohio State University is notifying about 760,000 people whose personal information was stored in the university's computer server that a data breach could put them at risk for identity theft.
For example, controls relating to data encryption or a functioning back up system, which mitigate the risk of data breach and data corruption respectively, scored very highly.
The results in Fig. 8, highlights that besides the risks of data breach and cyber-attack, or failure to meet agreed service levels, UK businesses are also concerned about having corporate data locked-in to a single cloud provider.
