While participating in a discussion in the Security Catalyst community I posted a message about how much more productive time I have now that I work from my home office as opposed to commuting in to an office building each day. After I finished posting I started thinking about how much more productive most businesses could be if they would establish significant portions of their workforce to work from home.
Posts Tagged ‘awareness and training’
Increase Business Productivity AND Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Monday, October 8th, 2007Something You Should Know: FTC Is Aggressively Going After Companies With Poor Security
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Of all the U.S. government regulatory oversight agencies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the most active and aggressive in looking for and applying penalties to organizations that not only are in noncompliance with laws and regulations, but also those who are not in compliance with their own information security and privacy promises; in other words, those that are practicing “unfair and deceptive trade practices.”
Why Would You Trust Microsoft To Store Your Sensitive Health Information?
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Today Microsoft launched their new web portal, HealthVault to store, for free, “medical histories, immunization and other records from doctors’ offices and hospital visits, including data from devices like heart monitors. It is also tied to a health information search engine the software maker launched last month.”
Know How To Motivate Your Personnel To Protect Information
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Not everyone has the same motivation to secure the information they handle or access while they are working. This is something very important for information security and privacy practitioners to understand, but unfortunately too many do not think about motivation factors when creating and managing their information security, privacy and compliance programs.
Lack of testing, lack of built-in security, and inadequate protection for stored data lead list of PCI noncompliance items
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I figured that since the PCI DSS compliance deadline for Level 1 merchants was this past Sunday that there would probably be a ton of published news reports about it on Monday. There were…and today as well! One that caught my eye was in eWeek on Monday, “Comparison Shows Very Little Shift in PCI Failures.”
ABN Amro PII Breached Through P2P: Lessons Learned
Monday, October 1st, 2007Much is written about the risks P2P presents to organizations, but many organizations continue to implement P2P technologies, or more accurately allow their personnel to implement them on computers used for business, because they are willing to risk that the threat theories will not materialize within their own organizations.
The Need to Partner Privacy and IT Efforts *FINALLY* Makes The News!
Sunday, September 30th, 2007I have long been promoting the concept…more accurately, the NEED…of having IT/Information Security and Privacy (often in the legal area) work closely together in order to not only result in each area being the most effective and efficient in their efforts, but also to ensure no conflicting messages are being sent and no gaps in addressing these issues exist. It is additionally good for and improves business to have these areas work closely together; there are at least 20 overlapping topics these areas work on. Unfortunately too often the Privacy and IT/Information Security areas do not even come closely to working together.
A Hospital Actively Enforcing HIPAA Requirements!
Saturday, September 29th, 2007It is great to see a story published about a hospital, actually any type of organization that is a covered entity (CE), that is actively and seriously trying to be in compliance with HIPAA requirements.
