I just ran across a privacy law non-compliance fine news report from Australia that was published October 22, 2008…
Posts Tagged ‘awareness and training’
Don’t Be A Dodo; Follow Privacy Requirements!
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Revisiting Google Streetview
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Happy Data Privacy Day!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009So, what are you doing to raise awareness about privacy issues today?
I’m sending various awareness communications to several mailing lists and online groups I belong to. Here’s the message I sent to my school parents’ mailing list…
Business Info Fact of the Day: PII Increasingly Stored On MP3 Players
Monday, January 26th, 2009Over the past few months during some of my presentations I’ve discussed how easily PII can be stored on mobile storage devices that most business leaders and information security folks often do not think about or overlook. One of those devices is the innocent-looking and seemingly benign MP3 player, such as the cool ipod. You gotta love’em! I know I love mine. However, a couple of times when I talked about how easy it is to store large amounts of company data, including personally identifiable information (PII), onto MP3 players, I got some noticeable snickers and sneers from a few in the audience who apparently thought such an idea was preposterous!
Well, here are a couple of different news articles that demonstrates otherwise; both about the same incident, but each with slightly different information…
Business Info Fact of the Day: PII Increasingly Stored On MP3 Players
Monday, January 26th, 2009Over the past few months during some of my presentations I’ve discussed how easily PII can be stored on mobile storage devices that most business leaders and information security folks often do not think about or overlook. One of those devices is the innocent-looking and seemingly benign MP3 player, such as the cool ipod. You gotta love’em! I know I love mine. However, a couple of times when I talked about how easy it is to store large amounts of company data, including personally identifiable information (PII), onto MP3 players, I got some noticeable snickers and sneers from a few in the audience who apparently thought such an idea was preposterous!
Well, here are a couple of different news articles that demonstrates otherwise; both about the same incident, but each with slightly different information…
More Ideas For Data Privacy Day, Jan. 28!
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Business Info Fact Of The Day: 70% Of Top 100 Websites Link To Malicious Software
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009For those of you whose business leaders do not think website filters, IDS systems or other types of security technologies are necessary business investments, show them this article…
New Guidelines for Safeguarding Personal Data
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Happy U.S. presidential inauguration day! 🙂 Did you take off a few minutes of work to watch the inauguration? I wasn’t going to, was planning to just catch videos on the news sites or YouTube later, but then I did, and I’m glad; it was so historical and memorable!
To celebrate, how about I tell you that NIST just made a great new document available…
Business Info Fact Of The Day: Most Personnel Do Not Protect Laptop Information
Monday, January 19th, 2009The Ponemon Institute seems to have been busy doing surveys throughout the world recently!
According to three separate research surveys they did in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. they report within the BNA Privacy and Security Law Reports (subscription required) about “The Human Factor in Laptop Encryption” many interesting findings. The following are some of the high-level summary statements; see the full reports for some very interesting statistics and analysis:
