Cyber security report find gaps in business data security

CHICAGO, IL --

The chain has not detailed the extent of the possible breach, or the number and locations of restaurants that are involved, but they have hired cyber security experts to investigate.

Meanwhile, a report has uncovered serious concerns about how businesses protect your data.

It seemed just about everyone received an email or letter in 2014 saying credit card information might have been exposed by a data breach.

Chicago-based information security company Trustwave, which works to help businesses protect customers' data, recently released its 2014 global security report and found that while 81 percent of businesses store customers' personal information, 63 percent of businesses don't have a "mature method" to control and track sensitive data.

"Everyone knows that data breaches are now on the map," says Trustwave's Abby Ross. "There are still serious security weaknesses businesses are facing and they are still not doing enough to remediate those weaknesses."

The study shows that one-third of businesses are not identifying where valuable data lives and moves.

"If businesses do not know where their valuable data is," Ross says, "how are they supposed to protect it?"

Many businesses also don't have enough manpower to manage important equipment.

"Our security testers have gone into environments where they see security technologies that companies pay all that money for sitting on the shelf in the package never deployed or installed," Ross says.

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Cyber security report find gaps in business data security