Data Breach Trends - Mary Monahan, Javelin Strategy & Research

The targets are getting bigger, the fraudsters bolder, and we all have a whole lot more at stake to lose. This is the message from Mary Monahan, Managing Partner and Research Director at Javelin Strategy & Research. In a discussion of current data breach trends, Monahan touches upon: How breaches in 2009 are trending differently from 2008; What public and private sector organizations need to do to prevent breaches; What to watch for as we approach 2010. Monahan has 10 years of financial services industry experience. Her banking background includes extensive managerial experience working with growth businesses, strategizing and implementing cross-sectional financial plans to accommodate multiple projective scenarios. As a college educator, Ms. Monahan's work focused on current issues in accounting and economics. Javelin, based in the San Francisco Bay area, provides direction on key facts and forces that materially determine the success of customer-facing financial services, payments and security initiatives.