Average Cost of ID Theft Per Victim is $31,356

October 24th, 2007

Finally, a report that looks much more accurate with regard to how much identity theft costs the VICTIMS of a privacy breach. Most reported victim costs that I have seen in the past seemed much too low considering all the time that victims talked about trying to repair and recover from identity theft, and how much resources it took, the many years it often takes, and so on.

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Training Info Sec and Privacy For Incident Response; Many Issues Overlap

October 23rd, 2007

It has been great talking in-depth about privacy issues over the past two days here at the IAPP Privacy Academy.
We had a great turnout for the pre-conference seminar; the room was filled to the 60-person capacity. It was good to hear the concerns and common practices of the diverse organizations for how they are providing privacy training and awareness.

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Helping Privacy Pros Deliver Effective Privacy Training and Awareness

October 22nd, 2007

Today I am co-delivering training with 4 other privacy education pros at the IAPP Privacy Academy pre-conference seminar, “Training 360¬∞: How to Educate the Enterprise.”

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1st Woman Space Station Commander…An Iowa Farm Girl!

October 21st, 2007

I thought this was pretty cool; it’s been on the local news here quite a lot, but it is neat to see it making national news…

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Best privacy advisers in 2007

October 20th, 2007

On Thursday, 10/18, Computerworld released their list of “The best privacy advisers in 2007

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How To Answer Four Questions Executives Have About Data Leakage

October 19th, 2007

Last week I had the opportunity to discuss what executives need to know about preventing data leakage with Richard Swart at bankinfosecurity.com for a podcast that was posted earlier this week.

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The World is Miffed About Spam & Phishing

October 18th, 2007

Several weeks ago I got spam from an information security company about a seminar they are putting on. I did not respond; I wasn’t interested. Since that time I have received many messages, all with the same content, from various people from that organization, the tone of which really ticked me off. The following is an excerpt.

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The World is Miffed About Spam & Phishing

October 18th, 2007

Several weeks ago I got spam from an information security company about a seminar they are putting on. I did not respond; I wasn’t interested. Since that time I have received many messages, all with the same content, from various people from that organization, the tone of which really ticked me off. The following is an excerpt.

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Data Will Always Be Less Safe In The Future…I Don’t Want To Get Gussied Up To Talk On The Phone

October 17th, 2007

I have a blog problem…there are way too many things I want to blog about and not enough hours in the day to do it! Throughout each day I note news items from the TV, or website news articles, or research, or reports, or just observations while at businesses or in public, and I only have a chance to blog about a small fraction of them. Today I think I’ll just briefly mention five of the topics I’ve planned to blog about, along with a brief note about each, and then maybe I’ll be able to revisit them sometime in the near future and discuss them at greater length.

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Finding a Five Leaf Clover!

October 16th, 2007

Something very cool…my son Noah found a five-leaf clover today while waiting to be picked up at school. We are going to laminate it, then I’ll take a photo and post it on my site.

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