The expanding use of smart gadgets in the Internet of Things (IoT) is creating many more privacy risks than ever before encountered. Many businesses are also (finally!) starting to address privacy. And interest in how to establish privacy programs and how to perform privacy impact assessments (PIAs) to identify privacy risks are increasing. The privacy risks to the business that can occur include such things as: (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘mobile working’
Organizations Must Consider Privacy Harms
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015Look Backward to Be Future-Ready for BYOD
Friday, May 8th, 2015What does the past teach us about how to #befutureready in BYOD?
During the last half of the 1990s there was concern for the growing use of employees’ own home desktop computers to dial-in to the corporate network from home. Thousands of articles and hundreds of conference sessions discussed the associated risks, and then how to mitigate them through documented policies and the use of new tools. Soon after 2000 passed the concerns expanded to employees using their personally owned laptops, not only outside of the office, but even bringing them into the facilities to use instead of the corporate-issued computers. Thousands more articles, and hundreds more conference sessions discussed how to address the risks. (more…)
Traveling PII
Monday, November 17th, 2008This is the second week in a row that I’ve been traveling and doing conference sessions, keynotes and my 2-day training class, so I’ve been a bit lax in my blog postings simply because of lack of time.
One of the things I like to do while traveling is to take notes about the many different types of personally identifiable information (PII) I see and hear while traveling. Traveling presents many significant risks to PII and other businss information, and not enough organizations provide training to their personnel to help them understand how to reduce those risks.
Here are a few of my notes from these current two weeks of travel…
Traveling PII
Monday, November 17th, 2008This is the second week in a row that I’ve been traveling and doing conference sessions, keynotes and my 2-day training class, so I’ve been a bit lax in my blog postings simply because of lack of time.
One of the things I like to do while traveling is to take notes about the many different types of personally identifiable information (PII) I see and hear while traveling. Traveling presents many significant risks to PII and other businss information, and not enough organizations provide training to their personnel to help them understand how to reduce those risks.
Here are a few of my notes from these current two weeks of travel…
