Latest Privacy Studies
Nymity provides analysis of recent privacy studies and makes them available for free. The analysis provides guidance to organizations to help them learn from the study and to mitigate privacy risk in their organization. 

Updated nightly courtesy of PrivaWorks.
Date Reference Popularity
02/03/2012 Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites - Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen Purcell, Kathryn Zickuhr and Lee Rainie - Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project 0.05%
02/01/2012 Aftermath of a Data Breach Study - Ponemon Institute 1.01%
01/31/2012 The Application Usage and Risk Report: An Analysis of End User Application Trends in the Enterprise - Palo Alto Networks 0.29%
01/18/2012 Trends in Security of Data Recovery Operations - Ponemon Institute LLC 0.29%
01/12/2012 Raising the Bar: 2011 TMT Global Security Study - Key Findings, Deloitte 0.19%
12/23/2011 Inviting Patients to Read their Doctors' Notes: Patients and Doctors Look Ahead - Jan Walker et al. - Annals of Internal Medicine 0.53%
12/15/2011 State of Software Security Report: Volume 4 - Veracode 0.05%
12/14/2011 2012 State of the Endpoint - Ponemon Institute 0.77%
12/13/2011 Hacker Intelligence Initiative, Monthly Trend Report 6 - Imperva 0.38%
12/13/2011 Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security - Ponemon Institute 0.24%
12/09/2011 Reputation Impact of a Data Breach: U.S. Study of Executives & Managers - Ponemon Institute 1.96%
12/01/2011 The Most Vulnerable Smartphones of 2011 - Harry Sverdlove, Bit9 0.34%
12/01/2011 Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 1H2011 - APWG 0.14%
11/29/2011 Managing Firewall Risks in the Cloud - Ponemon Institute 0.81%
11/28/2011 Why Parents Help Their Children Lie To Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act' - Danah Boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz and John Palfrey, First Monday 0.34%
11/28/2011 Ultimate 5 Top Malicious Spam Subjects - Security Labs 0.24%
11/22/2011 Why Johnny Can't Opt Out: A Usability Evaluation Of Tools to Limit Online Behavioral Advertising - Pedro G. Leon, Blase Ur, Rebecca Balebako, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Richard Shay, and Yang Wang, Carnegie Mellon University 0.53%
11/18/2011 Best Practices in Data Protection: Survey of US IT and IT Security Practitioners - Ponemon Institute 0.77%
11/17/2011 Healthcare Information Security Today - Information Security Media Group 0.48%
11/16/2011 Into the Cloud, Out of the Fog - Ernst & Young's 2011 Global Information Security Survey, Ernst & Young 0.91%
11/16/2011 Unisys Security Index: US - Wave 2H' 11 - Lieberman Research Group 0.14%
11/10/2011 A New Era in Information Security and Cyber Liability Risk Management - Advisen 0.96%
11/10/2011 Security Pros & Cons: IT Professionals on Confidence, Confidential Data and Today's Cyber-Cons - Websense Research 0.62%
11/09/2011 Insider Threat Control: Using Centralized Logging to Detect Data Exfiltration Near Insider Termination - Michael Hanley and Joji Montelibano, Carnegie Mellon 0.19%
11/01/2011 Microsoft Security Intelligence Report - Microsoft 0.53%
10/28/2011 I Know Where You Are and What You Are Sharing: Exploiting P2P Communications to Invade Users' Privacy - Stevens Le Blond, Chao Zhang, Arnaud Legout, Keith Ross, Walid Dabbous - Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the National Institute for Research in Computer Science & Control 0.19%
10/13/2011 The Demographics of Privacy: A Blueprint for Understanding Consumer Perceptions and Behavior - The Lares Institute 1.10%
10/13/2011 IBM X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report - IBM 0.86%
10/12/2011 Results of the 2011 Thomson Reuters Board Governance Survey - Kimberley Allan, Thomson Reuters 0.53%
10/12/2011 Verizon 2011 Payment Card Industry Compliance Report - Verizon 0.53%
10/03/2011 Consumerization of IT: A Survey Of IT Professionals - Dimensional Research 0.77%
09/26/2011 The State of Email Encryption - Ponemon Institute 3.35%
09/19/2011 Symantec Intelligence Report: August 2011 - Symantec 0.72%
09/16/2011 The Leaking Vault 2011: 6 Years of Data Breaches - Suzanne Widup, Digital Forensics Association 1.72%
09/15/2011 The Shocking Scale of Cybercrime, Norton 0.48%
09/15/2011 The Failure of Online Social Network Privacy Settings - Michelle Madejskiy, Maritza Johnson, and Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University, futureofprivacy.org 0.34%
09/12/2011 2011 State of Security Survey - Global Findings, Symantec 0.81%
09/09/2011 2011 Survey of Patient Privacy Breaches - Veriphyr 0.29%
09/08/2011 McAfee Threats Report: Second Quarter 2011 - McAfee Labs 0.29%
09/07/2011 Mobile Threat Report - Lookout Mobile Security 2.01%
09/07/2011 Bit9 Endpoint Security Survey 2011, Bit9 0.24%
08/26/2011 Second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study - Ponemon Institute 1.91%
08/25/2011 2Q Threat Roundup - Trend Micro 0.86%
08/25/2011 Tracking the Trackers Microsoft Advertising - Jonathan Mayer, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School 0.24%
08/23/2011 2010 Annual Study: Global Cost of a Data Breach, Ponemon Institute 2.20%
08/12/2011 The State of USB Drive Security - U.S. Survey of IT and IT Security Practitioners - Ponemon Institute LLC. 1.10%
08/11/2011 Behavioural Advertising and Privacy - TRUSTe 1.48%
08/09/2011 2011 ISUG Report On Data Security Management Challenges - International Sybase User Group 0.34%
07/21/2011 Study Finds 12.5% of Companies Violating Own Do-Not-Track Policies - Jacqui Cheng, ars technica 0.34%
07/15/2011 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors 0.57%
07/12/2011 Role of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance in Organizations - Ponemon Institute 2.92%
07/11/2011 2010 Energy and Resources Global Security Study - Deloitte 0.34%
07/11/2011 Child Identity Theft: New Evidence Indicates Identity Thieves are Targeting Children for Unused Social Security Numbers - Richard Power, Carnegie Mellon CyLab 0.24%
07/08/2011 Mobility and Security - Dazzling Opportunities, Profound Challenges - McAfee 0.81%
07/07/2011 Understanding Security Complexity in 21st Century IT Environments - Ponemon Institute 0.53%
07/06/2011 2011 AVG Community Powered Threat Report 0.57%
07/01/2011 Perceptions About Network Security - Ponemon Institute 0.57%
06/30/2011 Privacy Leakage vs. Protection Measures: The Growing Disconnect - Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs-Research, Konstantin Naryshkin, and Craig E. Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 0.72%
06/28/2011 2011 State of the Net Survey - Consumer Reports 0.57%
06/23/2011 Malicious Mobile Threats Report 2010/2011 - Juniper Networks 1.24%
06/23/2011 2011 Survey Results: The State of Government Information Security Today - GovInfoSecurity 0.53%
06/20/2011 2011 ISACA Survey - IT Risk / Reward Barometer 0.57%
06/13/2011 Unisys Security Index: United States - Lieberman Research Group 0.24%
06/08/2011 Social Media: Understanding User Patterns and Compliance Issues - The Lares Institute 0.81%
06/06/2011 The Failure of Online Social Network Privacy Settings - Michelle Madejski, Maritza Johnson, and Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University 0.57%
05/23/2011 FPF Finds Nearly Three-Quarters of Most Downloaded Mobile Apps Lack A Privacy Policy - Shaun Dakin and Shreya Vora, Future of Privacy Forum 0.29%
05/11/2011 Smart Privacy for Smartphones - TRUSTe 1.34%
05/06/2011 Top Business/Technology Issues Survey Results 2011 - ISACA 1.10%
05/05/2011 Security of Cloud Computing Providers Study - Ponemon Institute 2.44%
04/29/2011 2011 PCI DSS Compliance Trends Study - Ponemon Institute 0.86%
04/29/2011 In the Dark - Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks - McAfee 0.34%
04/25/2011 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report - Verizon 3.40%
04/21/2011 AdChoices? Compliance with Online Behavioral Advertising Notice and Choice Requirements - Saranga Komanduri, Richard Shay, Greg Norcie and Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University 1.39%
04/21/2011 State of IT Security: Study of Utilities & Energy Companies - Executive Summary - Ponemon Institute 0.19%
04/14/2011 Underground Economies: Intellectual Capital and Sensitive Corporate Data Now the Latest Cybercrime Currency - McAfee 0.67%
04/13/2011 IBM X-force 2010 Trend and Risk Report - IBM 1.29%
04/12/2011 Cisco 2010 Annual Security Report: Highliting Global Security Threats and Trends - Cisco Systems, Inc. 0.48%
04/11/2011 Standardizing Privacy Notices: An Online Study of the Nutrition Label Approach - Patrick Gage Kelley, Lucian Cesca, Joanna Bresee and Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University 0.81%
04/06/2011 March 2011 Intelligence Report - Symantec 0.67%
03/22/2011 Privacy and Security in Health Care: A Fresh Look - Deloitte 3.78%
03/18/2011 Global Energy Cyberattacks: "Night Dragon" - McAfee Inc. 0.24%
03/16/2011 2010 Annual Study - Cost of a Data Breach - Ponemon Institute 4.36%
03/15/2011 2011 ISC2 Global Information Security Workforce Study - ISC2 0.91%
03/09/2011 Breach Report 2010: Protected Health Information - Redspin 0.81%
03/08/2011 Location-Based Services: Time for a Privacy Check-In - American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California 0.81%
03/08/2011 A Survey of the Use of Adobe Flash Local Shared Objects to Respawn HTTP Cookies - Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University 0.77%
03/03/2011 Trustwave Global Security Report 2011 1.24%
02/24/2011 The True Cost of Compliance - A Benchmark Study of Multinational Organizations - Ponemon Institute 5.27%
02/24/2011 McAfee Q4 Threat Report Identifies New Attacks on Mobile Devices - McAfee Inc. 0.48%
02/14/2011 Borderless Security - 2010 Global Information Security Survey - Ernst & Young 2.25%
02/11/2011 Health Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking - Ponemon Institute LLC 1.68%
01/20/2011 PCI DSS Survey - Cisco Security Solutions Marketing 0.29%
01/07/2011 The Faces of Fraud: Fighting Back - 2010 Survey Results - Information Security Media Group 0.24%
12/22/2010 The Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Problem - Benchmark Study of U.S. Organizations - Ponemon Institute 0.38%
12/21/2010 Perceptions about Privacy on the Smart Grid - Ponemon Institute 0.14%
12/16/2010 Visual Data Breach Risk Assessment Study - People Security Consulting Services LLC 0.10%
12/14/2010 Secure Your Network - 2010 Top Cyber Security Risks Report, HP 0.19%
12/01/2010 Fourth Annual ESI Trends Report - Kroll Ontrack 0.14%
11/24/2010 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends - Ponemon Institute LLC 1.10%
11/23/2010 Borderless Security: Global Information Security Survey - Ernst & Young 0.19%
11/22/2010 Data In the Dark: Organizational Disconnect Hampers Information Security 2010 PASS Database Security Survey - Professional Association For SQL Server 0.05%
11/19/2010