Posts Tagged ‘compliance’
Monday, June 18th, 2012
June 22 update to this topic: Today the judge refused to block the release of the emails as Sebring and her lover requested. See http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120622/NEWS/120622012/Judge-announces-decision-on-Sebring-email-release
In the past few weeks the use of emails at work has been in the news a lot in central Iowa, and the news quickly spread around the globe because of the sex and intrigue involved. Basically, approximately four months before the end of school, the Des Moines Superintendent of Schools at the time, Dr. Sebring, started sending what would end up being over 40 very personal and sexually explicit messages to
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Tags:awareness, breach, compliance, Des Moines, e-mail, electronic mail, email, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, Iowa, IT security, messaging, midmarket, non-compliance, Omaha, personal information, personally identifiable information, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, public school, Rebecca Herold, Sebring, security, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, training
Posted in Information Security, Training & awareness | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
A couple of weeks ago I was doing a consulting call with a small startup business (that in a short span of time is already performing outsourced cloud processing for a number of really huge clients) about information security and privacy. They had implemented just the basic firewall and passwords, but otherwise had no policies, procedures, or documented program in place. I provided an overview of the need for information security and privacy controls to be in place throughout the entire information lifecycle; from creation and collection, to deletion and disposal. They were on board with everything I was describing until we got to (more…)
Tags:big data, breach, compliance, data analytics, data mining, degauss, disposal, disposal rule, facebook, FACTA, frictionless sharing, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, midmarket, Netflix, non-compliance, personal information, personally identifiable information, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, SB 3159, security, Senate Bill 3159, sensitive personal information, shred, SPI, systems security, trash
Posted in Laws & Regulations | 5 Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
I was recently speaking with a friend on the phone, and she said, “I just had the most embarrassing thing happen! I had one of my Facebook friends send me a text teasing me about reading a rather sleazy article on TMZ. I did not know what she was talking about! So, I went to my Facebook page, and sure enough, down the timeline there was an article I had only briefly gone to the previous day after clicking a headline about moms on Google news and landed on a page; I quickly got off of when I saw it. I was so embarrassed to see that my brief visit to the page had been posted on my Facebook page! I don’t even go to TMZ on purpose, why is Facebook suddenly tattling on me when it accidentally went there?” (more…)
Tags:audit, big data, breach, breach response, change controls, compliance, DailyMotion, data analytics, data mining, encryption, facebook, foursquare, frictionless sharing, gartner, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, Keywords: personal information, Metacafe, midmarket, Netflix, non-compliance, personally identifiable information, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, security, security engineering, sensitive personal information, Socialcam, SPI, spotify, systems security, Viddy, Washington post, WPO, Zuckerberg
Posted in Miscellaneous | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
My 12-year-old son said to me yesterday after getting home from school, “Hey, Mommy, did you know that Wal-Mart can tell when you’re pregnant? And so can Target! Even before anyone else knows! They got a girl in trouble when they sent her dad coupons for baby stuff and congratulated her!”
Me, “That’s pretty incredible, isn’t it? Companies are able to discover things like that about people more than ever before through analyzing what is called ‘Big Data’.”
Son, “That’s really creepy. I think you should (more…)
Tags:audit, big data, breach, breach response, change controls, compliance, data analytics, data mining, encryption, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, midmarket, non-compliance, personal information, personally identifiable information, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, security, security engineering, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, Target, Wal-Mart
Posted in privacy | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Last week I provided Howard Anderson at HealthInfosecurity.com with some of my thoughts about the recent Utah Department of Health breach of the files of 900,000 individuals, and counting. He included some of my thoughts in his blog post, along with thoughts from others. I wanted to provide my full reply here, along with some expanded thoughts.
As background, for those of you who may not have heard of this hack yet, in a nutshell: (more…)
Tags:audit, breach, breach response, change controls, compliance, DTS, encryption, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, Medicaid, midmarket, non-compliance, personal information, personally identifiable information, PHI, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, security, security engineering, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, Utah
Posted in BA, CE, healthcare, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Privacy Incidents | No Comments »
Friday, March 30th, 2012
De-identification is a great privacy tool for all types of businesses, of all sizes. If you have personal data that you want to use for research, marketing, testing applications, statistical trending or some other legitimate purpose, but you don’t need to know the specific individuals involved in order to meet your goals, then you should consider de-identifying the personal data. Even though it sounds complicated there are many good methods you can use to accomplish de-identification. And the great thing is, (more…)
Tags:anonymous, breach, compliance, de-identified data, de-identify, employment practice, encryption, IBM, Keywords: personal information, midmarket, non-compliance, personally identifiable information, PHI, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, re-identification, re-identify, Rebecca Herold, security, sensitive personal information, SPI
Posted in privacy | 2 Comments »
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
When looking ahead to what may happen in this new year it is necessary to first look back. Not only to 2011, but when making plans to move forward even further back to help make the best decisions moving forward. I do a lot of reading, including many mainstream publications written for the general public. You can see a lot of trends and problems by reading about how the general public is reporting (or not) about them. I also like to read the various publications specific to information security, privacy, compliance and technology to see the backstories and guts of the problems. Looking at all such reports helps to provide a more comprehensive view necessary for making good decisions. (more…)
Tags:2011, 2012, awareness, cloud computing, compliance, governance, GRC, Information Security, infosec, mobile computing, privacy, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, security, Smart Grid, Smart Meter, training
Posted in Information Security, mobile computing, privacy | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Happy New Year! I hope your year is starting out great. Have you made it to day 3 without breaking any of your resolutions? How about adding one more… (more…)
Tags:awareness, compliance, education, HIPAA, Information Security, personal information, PHI, PII, privacy, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, training
Posted in privacy, Training & awareness | No Comments »
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
On October 10, 2011, there was a report in the Baltimore Sun, “Law firm loses hard drive with patient records: Attorneys represent St. Joseph cardiologist sued for malpractice.” I posted about the report to one of the LinkedIn groups I participate in, pointing out that this is yet one more example of (more…)
Tags:BA, Baltimore, business associate, cardiologist, CE, compliance, covered entity, HIPAA, HITECH, hospital, Information Security, lawyer, malpractice, PHI, privacy, privacy breach, Rebecca Herold, St. Joseph, subpoena
Posted in BA, CE, healthcare, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Laws & Regulations, privacy, Privacy and Compliance | 6 Comments »
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
I’m giving a free webinar sponsored by Sophos this coming Wednesday, June 22: “10 Risk-Reducing Actions for Mobile HIPAA/HITECH Compliance.” Here is more information about it: (more…)
Tags:awareness, business associates, compliance, covered entities, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, patient information, PHI, privacy, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, risk managements, Sophos, training, wireless security
Posted in BA, CE, healthcare, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Laws & Regulations, mobile computing, privacy, Privacy and Compliance | 1 Comment »
