INTERNET SEARCHES FOR VETTING, INVESTIGATIONS, AND INTELLIGENCE
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In 2001, a survey of U.S. business rms by ASIS International and
PricewaterhouseCoopers found an estimated annual loss of between $53
and $59 billion, and 40% of respondents reported a loss of IP. Various esti-
mates dating from about seven years ago suggested that U.S. losses of IP
totaled $250 to $300 billion annually, and U.S. IP has a value of about $5
trillion (about half the U.S. economy).
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The Open Security Foundation’s
ten-year data breach breakdown of personally identifying information
lost included 8% from fraud, 13% from the Internet, 16% from hacking,
20% from stolen laptops, and 7% from stolen computers (with the rest from
miscellaneous losses), and ...