While facing an era of new regulatory and marketplace pressures, the life sciences industry is placing more emphasis on the areas of security, information protection and data privacy issues within their organizations. The 2006 Global Security Study for life sciences found that the number of major life sciences companies that employ chief security officers has increased three-fold over the last decade as the industry increasingly is making security and privacy a high priority. This study, developed by the Security & Privacy Services group of the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, finds that organizations are achieving mixed results in implementing security and privacy protection programs:

• Twenty-six percent of respondents reported that their security systems were breached within the past year, with 17 percent being external breaches and 9 percent internal breaches
• Another 46 percent said they had no security breaches
• Twenty-eight percent said they did not know whether they had security breaches.

Learn more about the study by reading the press release or view the entire report, which is available as a PDF file attachment below.

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