Visit PrivacyRights.org to see the types of publicly available information about data breaches. How might researchers use this information to study breaches? Enter a paragraph in your journal.

While it may be impossible to know about every single data breach that happens across the globe, having a collection of data, such as the one offered on PrivacyRights.org, is a crucial tool for learning about trends in current and past cybersecurity breaches. Even if the data available accounts for only half of the overall incidents, the trends that are shown are invaluable when used to predict where future attacks are more likely to occur. Napoleon is said to have once stated that 90% of war was information. While times have certainly changed over the past 250 years, Napoleon’s words still ring true as society moves ever forward into the cyber era.