Paul F. Roberts

Enterprise IT administrators didn't need the recent stories about large-scale data breaches at TJX Co. (network compromise potentially exposing credit data on hundreds of thousands of customers) or Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (lost hard drive with personal financial information on 470,000 mutual fund customers) or Nationwide Health Plans (backup tapes with data on 28,000 patients stolen from a lockbox) to convince them that data protection was an urgent problem in need of attention.