There has been much written in the past week about Merrick Bank suing the audit firm, Savvis, because a breach occurred at CardSystems in 2005 even though Savvis had given passing marks for the CardSystems audit that Merrick Bank hired them to perform in 2004 to ensure they were following Visa’s Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP); basically a forerunner of the current PCI DSS program. Savvis found that CardSystems was following the CISP requirements. Within a year after the audit, CardSystems experienced a major breach that basically put them out of business.
I have had the great privilege to work as an IT auditor early in my career, for a while as an internal auditor at a large multi-national financial and insurance company, and then doing periodic audits since in various organizations in a wide range of industries since. All wonderful learning experiences!
There are a couple of important points that the judge in this situation should consider, and the lawyers in this case should understand:
Posts Tagged ‘IT training’
Audits Show Things At a Moment in Time; Silly To Sue For Breaches That Happen 1 Year After Audit Conclusion?
Monday, June 8th, 2009Great InfoSec and Privacy Info and Resources This Week On Twitter
Friday, June 5th, 2009I got my week’s issue of Time magazine in the mail today, and lo-and-behold the cover and feature story was about Twitter!
Not Providing Training and Awareness Is The Dumbest Idea For Information Security
Thursday, June 4th, 2009As time goes on, and more and more information security incidents and privacy breaches occur, I continue to hear otherwise smart people say silly and completely wrong statements about the need (or lack of) for information security and privacy training and awareness!
Rights for Privacy Breach Victims
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009I received a provacative question on Twitter last week from idExperts, “If you had a wish list of rights for identity theft victims, what would that be?”
Sounds like a great blog topic! 🙂 Here are my thoughts…
Common InfoSec & Privacy Training Mistakes
Monday, June 1st, 2009I’ve been reviewing some of the information security and privacy training and awareness content for some organizations; some large and some small. Most of the training is ineffective…
Insider Threat: Horrible Tragedy Highlights Need For Policies & Training
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009I got the June 1 issue of Newsweek today, and something that’s bothered me ever since I first heard about it was on page 4…
HIPAA, HITECH Act and Disposal Problems
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Here’s yet another incident that provides very good lessons that could be incorporated into information security and privacy training sessions as a case study, particularly for HIPAA compliance as well as secure disposal training…
The World’s Largest (and BEST!) Cyber Defense Competition for Teens…In Ames Iowa!
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Last month Iowa State University, in Ames, held a unique type of IT Olympics for teens…
Effectively Explaining the Purpose of Information Classification to Employees
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009The topic for my Q2 2009 issue of Protecting Information was helping employees to understand why different types of information need different levels of security. Yes, this is information classification, but I describe it in a way that employees of all levels and responsibilities throughout an organization can understand, here’s how…
HITECH Act does *NOT* make HIPAA, or HIPAA advice, “obsolete”!
Monday, May 18th, 2009A couple of weeks ago I was surprised and concerned by a statement made in one of my many listservs by a lawyer commenting on HIPAA books and past advice given for HIPAA compliance…
