Posts Tagged ‘IT training’

Secure360 Starts Tomorrow!

Monday, May 11th, 2009

I drove up to St. Paul, MN, today and will be speaking, and look forward to attending the sessions, at Secure360.

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Regulatory Requirements for Training and Awareness

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Today I had a great conversation with a CISO about the regulatory and legal requirements for organizations to provide information security and privacy training and awareness activities…

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Podcast: HITECH Act adds new compliance requirements, penalties

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Alexander B. Howard at SearchCompliance.com for a 26 minute podcast…

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Understanding Data Protection from 4 Critical Perspectives

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Today I gave a webcast (27 minutes) about “Understanding Data Protection from 4 Critical Perspectives” and it is now available online through this link

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IP Addresses Are Considered PII By Some Countries No Matter If U.S. Orgs Like It Or Not

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Today on Twitter, @clarinette02 posted a link to an interesting article, “IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says,” from a little over a year ago…

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Red Flags Rule Enforcement Delayed to August 1, 2009; FTC Providing a Compliance “Template”

Friday, May 1st, 2009

The FTC has once more announced a delayed enforcement of the Red Flags Rule to August 1, 2009

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Employee Rights to PII When You Leave Your Employer or Lose Your Job

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I often get emails from my blog and Twitter readers, many of whom I have never met before; sometimes several in a day. Many often ask for help that really is a call for free consulting help. Others are quick, short and fast for me to answer. Others are just bizarre. I answer whatever I have time for. I recently got the following question (edited to protect identities), and I think so many folks may be involved in a similar situation with all the continuing job losses that it might be useful to several folks…

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HIPAA & HITECH Act Sanctions & Penalties

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Today I had the great pleasure and opportunity to do a podcast with Alexander Howard over at TechTarget discussing HIPAA and the HITECH Act…

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Community Information Security and Privacy Awareness

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Today I read a nice article describing a presentation about information security, “Cyber safety tips shared“…

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My Son Caught A “Hacker”!

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

NOTE: Just realized today is Take Your Child To Work Day so this is timely! 🙂
My sons, 12-years-old and 9-years-old, have been with me a lot while I work in my home office over the years, and they have a strong interest in much that I do. I even ask them to read the articles I write for Protecting Information since I want that publication to be informational to not only personnel, but also all the personnel’s family members.
It amazes me how much my sons soak up that I’m not even aware of…

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