Last year I had a couple of different identity theft insurance vendors contact me wanting me to endorse their products as they were trying to sell the packages to employers to offer to their employees as part of their total benefits packages.
Posts Tagged ‘awareness and training’
Would You Be More Inclined To Work For A Company That Gave You Identity Theft Insurance As A Benefit?
Monday, September 17th, 2007PII for 60,000 Lost In Yet Another Incident: Know How To Address The Risks Involved With Entrusting PII To Business Partners
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Yesterday yet another incident occurred where a business partner / vendor lost the personally identifiable information (PII) for which they had been entrusted. Americhoice sent a CD containing the PII of 67,000 individuals to TennCare via overnight UPS delivery.
The First Ever HIPAA Audit: Where’s The Report? Does It Have Beef?
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Gosh, I just had a flashback to the “Where’s the Beef” commercial from years ago… 🙂
The U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule went into effect in April, 2001, and gave covered entities (CEs) two years to get into compliance. The HIPAA Security Rule went into effect in April 2003 and CEs had until April 2005 to get into compliance.
Fair Labor Standards Act: Court Ruling Makes Me Wonder…When/Do IT Folks Get Paid For Overtime?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Here’s something interesting along the compliance front…especially considering the very long hours I used to work for my employer years ago, and how long I know so many other IT folks work long hours trying to resolve problems. It also brings in a law I’m not very familiar with, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), but motivates me to learn more. Those of you in IT fields will be interested in this…
HIPAA & 4 Lessons From an Insider Threat Example: Former Healthcare IT Manager Hacks Into System and Deletes PHI
Monday, September 10th, 2007There are so many ways in which bad things can happen with the authorized access personnel and business partners have to sensitive data, personally identifiable information (PII), and business systems. Many times the bad things that happen are a result of a lack of awareness of how to properly protect information, a result of mistakes, or a result of malicious intent. Here is just one more example to add to your file of actual insider threat incidents.
HIPAA & 4 Lessons From an Insider Threat Example: Former Healthcare IT Manager Hacks Into System and Deletes PHI
Monday, September 10th, 2007There are so many ways in which bad things can happen with the authorized access personnel and business partners have to sensitive data, personally identifiable information (PII), and business systems. Many times the bad things that happen are a result of a lack of awareness of how to properly protect information, a result of mistakes, or a result of malicious intent. Here is just one more example to add to your file of actual insider threat incidents.
Craig’s Voicemail Error Not Uncommon; Be Sure Your Employees Don’t Do the Same!
Saturday, September 8th, 2007This week Larry Craig, the U.S. Senator embroiled in a sex scandal, left a long, detailed voice mail message for his lawyer. Problem was, he misdialed and left the message on another person’s voice mail!
Craig’s Voicemail Error Not Uncommon; Be Sure Your Employees Don’t Do the Same!
Saturday, September 8th, 2007This week Larry Craig, the U.S. Senator embroiled in a sex scandal, left a long, detailed voice mail message for his lawyer. Problem was, he misdialed and left the message on another person’s voice mail!
Judge Rules USA PATRIOT Act Breaks Separation of Powers Requirements
Thursday, September 6th, 2007There was some very interesting news in the Kansas City Star today; “Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act”
