July 22nd, 2009
On July 9, 2009 the Missouri governor signed House Bill No. 62 into law, and it included section 407.1500, which is the requirement for giving privacy breach notice.
Since I’m focusing this week on encryption laws, I want to take a moment and point out the horrible way in which encryption is defined within this new Missouri law..
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Tags: awareness and training, breach law, breach response, enryption, HIPAA, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, Missouri, personally identifiable information, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, security training
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July 20th, 2009
This week I want to take a look at encryption laws. Only a few short years ago no law or regulation really had explicit encryption requirements. HIPAA, passed in 1996 with effective compliance deadline requirements in 2003 (Privacy Rule) and 2005 (Security Rule) included withint the Security Rule that encryption was “addressable” based upon the results of risk assessment.
However, encryption became a more hotly debated topic with the more recent Massachusetts and Nevada laws that explicitly require organizations to encrypt personally identifiable information (PII). Now the question of whether or not the Massachusetts law will indeed be enforced upon the current compliance date of January 1, 2010 is once more in the news…
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Tags: awareness and training, breach law, breach response, enryption, HIPAA, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, Morrissey, personally identifiable information, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, security training
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July 16th, 2009
There is much debate about what specific types of items should be considered as personally identifiable information (PII). A common topic of debate is; if information can be found publicly does that mean it is not PII?
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Tags: awareness and training, HIPAA, HITECH Act, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, personally identifiable information, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, security training
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July 15th, 2009
I want to continue my look at the concept of personally identifiable information (PII), and what types of items, in particular, are considered as such…
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Tags: awareness and training, de-identification, HIPAA, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, personally identifiable information, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, security training
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July 13th, 2009
This week I want to look at the concept of personally identifiable information (PII), and what types of items, in particular, are considered as such…
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Tags: awareness and training, HIPAA, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, personally identifiable information, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, security training
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July 10th, 2009
I’ve had some very interesting discussions about the CMU SSN study throughout the week, and, before moving on to other topics next week, I wanted to wrap up the week and discussion with some final thoughts on the CMU SSN topic..
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Tags: awareness and training, Carnegie Mellon, CMU, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training, social engineering, social security number, SSN
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July 8th, 2009
Following the release of the CMU SNN report on Monday, I’ve had some very interesting discussions with privacy and information security folks, and I’ve been pretty amazed at some of the reactions to the study.
I also posted about this to one of the GRC mailing lists I participate in, and I got some questions asking me for my thoughts about some specific issues. I wanted to share those thoughts here as well…
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Tags: awareness and training, Carnegie Mellon, CMU, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training, social engineering, social security number, SSN
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July 6th, 2009
It is nice to have scientific evidence of what we’ve been telling business leaders ever since they wanted to start using SSNs as identifiers and passwords!
Today Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) released a very revealing report, “Predicting Social Security numbers from public data” I want to expand upon some of the issues covered within it, and then urge you to communicate effectively to your business leaders the related concerns of your organization…
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Tags: awareness and training, Carnegie Mellon, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy training, risk management, security training, social security number, SSN
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July 6th, 2009
It is nice to have scientific evidence of what we’ve been telling business leaders ever since they wanted to start using SSNs as identifiers and passwords!
Today Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) released a very revealing report, “Predicting Social Security numbers from public data” I want to expand upon some of the issues covered within it, and then urge you to communicate effectively to your business leaders the related concerns of your organization…
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Tags: awareness and training, Carnegie Mellon, CMU, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy training, risk management, security training, social security number, SSN
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July 2nd, 2009
On May 30, 2009, Nevada enacted a new law, SB 227, which will basically replace NRS 597.970 in January 2010.
In many ways the new law is an improvement over the much more vague, and brief, NRS 597.970. I want to focus here on an improvement, but something that still leaves much to interpretation; that is, what is meant by “encryption”?
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Tags: awareness and training, encryption, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, Nevada, PII personally identifiable informaton, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, SB 227, SB 347, security training
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