Posts Tagged ‘mobile security’
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
As demonstrated over and over again over the past several years, mobile computing devices and storage media present a huge risk to business and personal information. Because of the portability of these devices, organizations are basically entrusting the security of the information stored upon them into the hands of the people using them. It is vital that an effective mobile computing device and storage media security and privacy management program is in place.
A mobile computing device and storage media security and privacy management program should be able to answer the questions: (more…)
Tags:awareness and training, compliance, Information Security, mobile computing, mobile security, privacy, Rebecca Herold, security, security training, wireless
Posted in Information Security, Laws & Regulations, Miscellaneous, mobile computing, Privacy and Compliance, Training & awareness | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Over the past few months during some of my presentations I’ve discussed how easily PII can be stored on mobile storage devices that most business leaders and information security folks often do not think about or overlook. One of those devices is the innocent-looking and seemingly benign MP3 player, such as the cool ipod. You gotta love’em! I know I love mine. However, a couple of times when I talked about how easy it is to store large amounts of company data, including personally identifiable information (PII), onto MP3 players, I got some noticeable snickers and sneers from a few in the audience who apparently thought such an idea was preposterous!
Well, here are a couple of different news articles that demonstrates otherwise; both about the same incident, but each with slightly different information…
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Tags:awareness and training, Information Security, ipod security, IT compliance, IT training, mobile security, policies and procedures, privacy breach, privacy training, risk management, security incident, security training
Posted in Information Security, Privacy and Compliance, Privacy Incidents | No Comments »
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Over the past few months during some of my presentations I’ve discussed how easily PII can be stored on mobile storage devices that most business leaders and information security folks often do not think about or overlook. One of those devices is the innocent-looking and seemingly benign MP3 player, such as the cool ipod. You gotta love’em! I know I love mine. However, a couple of times when I talked about how easy it is to store large amounts of company data, including personally identifiable information (PII), onto MP3 players, I got some noticeable snickers and sneers from a few in the audience who apparently thought such an idea was preposterous!
Well, here are a couple of different news articles that demonstrates otherwise; both about the same incident, but each with slightly different information…
(more…)
Tags:awareness and training, Information Security, ipod security, IT compliance, IT training, mobile security, policies and procedures, privacy breach, privacy training, risk management, security incident, security training
Posted in Information Security, Privacy and Compliance, Privacy Incidents | No Comments »
Monday, December 1st, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, while I was at the CSI Annual conference doing sessions and giving my 2-day class there, I took some time to do an interview with Mike Brennan at Michigan Tech News radio about the keynote I did the week before in Kalamazoo, MI; the podcast of it was just posted today…
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Tags:awareness and training, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, Mike Brennan, mobile computing, mobile security, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training
Posted in Information Security, Privacy and Compliance | No Comments »
