Dive Brief:

• More than 200 significant security incidents occur on a daily basis, with nearly six actual breaches every day, according to IT security firm Centri.

• In its new report, Centri said old methods of network security made sense when data was kept on servers located at corporate headquarters, but that's no longer the case.

• As a result, Centri emphasized that the way companies think about protecting data needs to change.

Dive Insight:

As companies capture, store, share and analyze data in the cloud, on mobile devices, and on a wide variety of other connected devices, the way they think about protecting data needs to evolve.

The report emphasized the need for organizations to rethink their security strategies and stressed the importance of encryption. The report also included the average cost of a significant data breach, and the ease with which most breaches can be executed.