14 DAY TRIAL // Effective today, the Open Security Foundation (OSF) will take over maintenance responsibilities for Attrition.org's DataLossDB. The OSF is a non-profit organization run by IT security buffs, while DataLossDB is an ongoing project aimed at collecting worldwide info in regard to data loss incidents.
Jake Kouns, CEO and CFO with OSF, comments: "The DataLossDB project provides a critical service that enables detailed analysis on the true impact of data loss. The Open Security Foundation is in a perfect position to support the expansion of the DataLossDB project."
Attrition.org came up with the DataLoss project back in 2001 and kept on managing it for a period of 4 years, until the summer of 2005. By the autumn of 2006, the DLDOS (Data Loss Database Open Source) was introduced and up until now information on over 1,000 data loss incidents has been stored in the database, incidents that might have an impact on 330 million people.
The DataLossDB has made considerable efforts to gather and categorize huge amounts of data, not to mention make said data available to the general public. Thanks to these efforts the project has become a recognized leader in its field of activity.
Kelly Todd, CCO and Secretary of OSF, explains: "We've worked hard to research, gather, and make this data open to the public. Hopefully, the migration to OSF will lead to more community participation, public awareness, and consumer advocacy by providing an open forum for submitting information."
The goal of the OSF is to take the current framework of the DataLossDB and improve it. People are encouraged to get involved and help make the project better. "For a data set as dynamic as this, it made sense to build it into a more user-driven format. With the release of this new site, the project can now be fed by anyone, from data loss victims to researchers," says David Shettler, VP and CTO of OSF.
DataLossDB is also known as Data Loss Database and Data Loss Open Source (DLDOS).