Business Info Fact Of The Day: Insiders Are Huge Information Security Threat
January 7th, 2009With New Year & New U.S. Administration, New Compliance Actions Projected
January 7th, 2009The 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.
Business Info Fact Of The Day: Employees In Most Organizations Are Twittering
January 6th, 2009There were over 1.2 million Twitter users in December and the numbers of users are growing exponentially.
Audit’s Role in Privacy Breach Response
January 5th, 2009Next 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…
Business Info Fact Of The Day: Data Multiplies Faster Than Cockroaches And Some Bacteria!
January 5th, 2009Is it any wonder organizations have a hard time protecting their data, let alone knowing where it all is?
Surveillance: Iowa Support’s Wife’s Privacy Invasion Claim
January 4th, 2009Privacy-related news in Iowa…and there seems to be a lot of it sometimes…is always of special interest to me. I often wonder how the same types of situations would play out in other states. Here’s an invasion of privacy case regarding in-home surveillance that is particularly interesting…
CORRECTION: Massachusetts Data Protection Law Takes Effect May 1, 2009
January 3rd, 2009A big thank you to Brandon Dunlap and Brett Myers for catching an error I made in my January 1 post…
New Data Protection Laws Go Into Effect Today
January 1st, 2009Happy New Year!
Several news laws go into effect today. Here are just a few of them…
