...despite high-profile cases spotlighting the brand damage such a cavalier attitude can cause. The number of data lossesreported to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for the year ending October 2009 has almost doubled to 415 incidents...
http://www.cbronline.com/news/uk_firms_careless_about_security_281009
...Network Security Inspector? Page 13 of 16 Direct financial loss According to the CSI report, the greatest monetary lossesreported by companies were due to theft of proprietary information. Most organizations have data stored on their networks...
http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/documents/snsi_whitepaper.pdf