Archive for January, 2009

Business Info Fact Of The Day: American Express Most Trusted Company in 2008 for Privacy

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

The results of the 5th annual Ponemon Institute – TRUSTe survey of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy showed the following companies to be the most trusted in the U.S.:

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Business Info Fact Of The Day: American Express Most Trusted Company in 2008 for Privacy

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

The results of the 5th annual Ponemon Institute – TRUSTe survey of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy showed the following companies to be the most trusted in the U.S.:

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Random Thoughts: The Relationship Between Risk And Awareness

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

The following concept, taken from the January 12, 2009 issue of Time (page 56), can also be applied to information security incidents and privacy breaches…

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Random Thoughts: The Relationship Between Risk And Awareness

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

The following concept, taken from the January 12, 2009 issue of Time (page 56), can also be applied to information security incidents and privacy breaches…

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Business Info Fact Of The Day: Insiders Are Huge Information Security Threat

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

According to a new Cisco study:

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Business Info Fact Of The Day: Insiders Are Huge Information Security Threat

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

According to a new Cisco study:

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With New Year & New U.S. Administration, New Compliance Actions Projected

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

The lack of effective or consistent regulatory oversight over the past 8 years, much of which is blamed in large part for the current economic mess, means, at least to many soothsayers, that a new Obama administration will bring with it not only more aggressive compliance activities, but also a fresh round of new laws and regulations, many of which are anticipated to require much more audit logging, storage and retention, and more stringent access controls.

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Business Info Fact Of The Day: Employees In Most Organizations Are Twittering

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

There were over 1.2 million Twitter users in December and the numbers of users are growing exponentially.

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Twitter Accounts Hacked; Including Barack Obama’s and Britney Spear’s

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Yesterday Twitter reported here and here that several (33 to be exact) Twitter accounts were hacked into. This is in addition to the current, but separate, Twitter phishing…otherwise known as “twishing“…exploit that is simulatenously going on.

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Audit’s Role in Privacy Breach Response

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Next week, on Wednesday, January 14, I will be in Minneapolis, MN speaking at the Minneapolis Gateway Hotel for the ISACA Winter Quarterly Meeting/Social.
My topic will be, “Internal Audit’s Role in Responding to Privacy Breaches.”
Here’s a synopsis…

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