This report shares detailed insights and data on the breaches impacting consumers in 2020 and provides year-over-year comparisons to breaches affecting consumers in the U.S. in 2019. It clearly demonstrates the need for organizations to adopt a comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) solution to help prevent identity-related data breaches, protect their brands, and preserve customer relationships.

Our report focuses on confirmed breaches in which confidential data is exposed and/or stolen. A confirmed breach can refer to a single record being stolen — and such a breach must be analyzed and remediated to determine the source — but because most breaches are financially driven, attackers target large caches of data that they can hold for ransom or sell on the dark web.

This report focuses on confirmed breaches in which confidential data has been exposed and/or stolen, ranging from very small breaches to large caches of data that provide financial incentives to hackers to hold for ransom, sell on the dark web, or both. . Many breaches that occurred as a result of third parties (vendors, suppliers, contractors, or other organizations) were researched to determine the root causes.

What the Internet of Things means for consumer privacy discusses the findings of an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research programme, sponsored by ForgeRock, that explores the privacy concerns and priorities of global consumers stemming from the Internet of Things (IoT) and related technologies.

From the report, “The survey results show that companies should ensure their online interactions with customers are aligned around three key principles: trust, consent, and education.” Read on to understand more.