I’ve heard far too many business leaders in lesser-regulated industries, of organizations of all sizes, say something to the effect of, “Oh, we don’t have any information that hackers would find of any value.”
Archive for the ‘Privacy and Compliance’ Category
Many Motivators For Identity Theft
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009There Are 47 US State & Territory Breach Notice Laws: 1-Page Listing
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Over the weekend I did some research to make sure I am up to date with all the current U.S. state and U.S. territories breach notice laws…
Avoid Information Overload In Your Information Security & Privacy Training!
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009I’ve been reviewing some “canned” information security and privacy training offerings in the past few months, and I’m seeing that many of them are trying to dump TOO MUCH information on those taking them; learners can only absorb so much information within a short period of time and retain it for any significant amount of time!
68 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets Digest Back Through March 7
Sunday, March 15th, 2009Once more I’m providing a digest of the Twitter tweets I put out (PrivacyProf) over the past week that provided pointers to interesting and useful news reports and pieces of information that I do not want to have lost in the vastness of the ever-growing twittersphere. So, for posterity and my own future reference…my own backup if you will…here’s a listing of the ones I want to be able to look back upon without paging through multiple posts on my PrivacyProf account…
1746 Organizations In The U.S.’s EU Safe Harbor Program
Thursday, March 12th, 2009A type of project I really love to do is a privacy impact assessment (PIA). For companies who collect or otherwise handle the personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals from multiple countries, typically doing a cross border data flow analysis of the PII is within the scope of the PIA.
Court Decision on FACTA Credit Card Transaction Receipt Violations
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009I was doing a bit of research around the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and ran across an interesting recent court decision…
Court Decision on FACTA Credit Card Transaction Receipt Violations
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009I was doing a bit of research around the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and ran across an interesting recent court decision…
Here’s the link for Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Considerations
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009I forgot the link to my article yesterday!!
Here it is…
“Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Considerations”
Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Considerations
Monday, March 9th, 2009I’ve been having a lot of conversations in the past few weeks about Web 2.0 privacy and security issues. Web 2.0 certainly has greatly enhanced how the Internet can be used. Posting information on blogs, social networking sites, microblogs (such as Twitter), texting, IMing and an assortment of other types of activities have become a normal part of many people’s lives.
