Posts Tagged ‘Information Security’

Create A Clear Education Strategy BEFORE Asking Executives for Training and Awareness Support

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Information security, privacy, and compliance practitioners must obtain the support of executive management to be successful. So how do you do this?
I talk about this in the first section of the first article of my October issue of “IT Compliance in Realtime Journal.”
Here is the unformatted version of the first section of the first article; download the PDF to see a much nicer-looking version…

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The Insider Threat For Identity Theft: Watchout For Dead-Beat Parents

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Here’s a story that points to how vulnerable people are to identity theft and other types of crimes and frauds from slimy family…and ex-family…members…

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Obama’s and McCain’s Data Protection Plans

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Something that I want to know about the U.S. presidential candidates, along with all their views and plans for the economy, education, healthcare, defense and so on, is what their plans are for information security and privacy protections. The past 8 years certainly has been a mixed bag of impacts for privacy and information safeguards.

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Hackers Are “Rattlesnakes Without the Rattles”

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Research into the psychology of hackers has been going on ever since Cap’n Crunch cereal whistles were used to make free phone calls to anywhere in the world.
I saw the ABC News article…

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Web 2.0 Security, Privacy & Policies

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Since 2000 I’ve been writing a monthly column for the Computer Security Institute (CSI) Alert publication…

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FTC Postpones Active Red Flags Rule Enforcement To May 1, 2009

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

I was surprised to read this yesterday…

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DHS Secretary Chertoff Calls For Better Computer Security

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

It is good to start seeing more urgency place upon information security by the various government agencies.
As an example, last week U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff spoke at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce emphasized the need for increased cooperation between industry and government to secure the nation’s computer systems.
Here’s an excerpt from one of the news reports about the speech…

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Reading Online Privacies Could Cost $365 Billion Annually? Doubt It!

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

My friend Alec (thanks Alec!) pointed me this interesting story…

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$243 Million Judgment In Iowa For Violations Of Spam Law

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Here’s something interesting I just ran across…

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Federal Reserve Releases Examination Procedures For Red Flags Rule Compliance

Friday, October 17th, 2008

If you must comply with the Red Flags Rule, which is a rule that falls under the umbrella of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), which most organizations in the U.S. who process payments from their customers must comply with, for which compliance is required by November 1 of this year, then you should review the recently released guidance documents that will be used by the government oversight examiners…

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