I’ve had some very interesting discussions about the CMU SSN study throughout the week, and, before moving on to other topics next week, I wanted to wrap up the week and discussion with some final thoughts on the CMU SSN topic..
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Crooks Don’t Need to Steal SSNs If They Can Create Valid SSNs Themselves
Friday, July 10th, 2009Tags:awareness and training, Carnegie Mellon, CMU, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training, social engineering, social security number, SSN
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Implications Of The CMU SSN Study: What Business Leaders Need To Understand
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Following the release of the CMU SNN report on Monday, I’ve had some very interesting discussions with privacy and information security folks, and I’ve been pretty amazed at some of the reactions to the study.
I also posted about this to one of the GRC mailing lists I participate in, and I got some questions asking me for my thoughts about some specific issues. I wanted to share those thoughts here as well…
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Study Proves SSNs Are Easily Guessed; Don’t Use SSNs To Verify Identity Or As Passwords!
Monday, July 6th, 2009It is nice to have scientific evidence of what we’ve been telling business leaders ever since they wanted to start using SSNs as identifiers and passwords!
Today Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) released a very revealing report, “Predicting Social Security numbers from public data” I want to expand upon some of the issues covered within it, and then urge you to communicate effectively to your business leaders the related concerns of your organization…
Tags:awareness and training, Carnegie Mellon, CMU, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy training, risk management, security training, social security number, SSN
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