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What is a Data breach, and how it happens?
A data breach is an incident wherein sensitive, secured as well as confidential information has potentially been seen, stolen, or utilized by unauthorized individuals. The most common idea of a data breach is an attacker hacking your network to steal important and sensitive information. Many industry guidelines, as well as government compliance rules, mandate firm governance of sensitive information to keep away data breached.
What are the Main Causes of Data Breaches?
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Theft of a device or physical loss is one of the most common reasons for data breaches. Arguably this is the simplest of the common cause of breaches. But there are other ways in which this can happen. It can be anyone of your laptop, flash drive, and external drive has been harmed, stolen as well as misplaced.
