Two different companies in the past two weeks were fined by regulatory agencies for separate database breaches. The fines serve as a concrete and eye-opening example of what can happen to a business that fails to lock down its precious data stores. The average organizational cost of a data breach stands at about $6.75 million. The big fines doled out to Certegy and Davidson & Co. act as a punishment, but also as a deterrent and warning to others. The Davidson & Company breach is a classic morality tale of the security world.”]