Posts Tagged ‘privacy breach’

My New E-Journal For March Now Available!

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Remember when I mentioned in January that I would be devoting more time in 2008 to writing papers to post to this site instead of spending as much time writing long blog postings?
Well, the papers I wrote in February are now available for you to download, FREE, in the form of what will be a monthly E-Journal!
For this month I wrote about the following issues that I see as immediately significant to businesses of all kinds:

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3rd HIPAA Criminal Indictment; Another Insider Job

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

On February 15, Leslie A. Howell, from Oklahoma City, OK, was indicted for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 as part of an identity theft scheme.

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Will Bad News Come in 3’s For Health Net?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

In the past several days Health Net made the news…in ways they would rather not have…
First this on 2/22:

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Have You Reviewed the FTC’s Proposed Privacy Principles Yet?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

If you are responsible for information security or privacy at your organization, and your organization does marketing, here is something you need to know about and discuss with your marketing folks. I blogged about this in December.

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Example privacy breach response plan

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Too few organizations are prepared to respond to a privacy breach when it happens. Too many naively believe a privacy breach will not happen to them.
It is helpful to look at existing privacy breach notice plans when creating your own. The U.S. government agencies actually provide some good plans you can use as examples.

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Educational Security Incidents Year in Review 2007

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Since I’m talking about “The Anatomy of a Privacy Breach” at Berkeley today, I thought it would be timely to point out a great resource that details the very many privacy breaches that occur within colleges and universities.

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The Anatomy of a Privacy Breach

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Today I’m flying from the very frigid sub-zero temps of Iowa out to the University of California at Berkeley. I was invited to give a lecture, and considering the ongoing increase in privacy breaches, I chose to talk about “The Anatomy of a Privacy Breach.”

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Have You Looked In Your Trash Bins Lately?

Monday, February 18th, 2008

It shouldn’t still amaze me, but it does, how often so many organizations just dump huge amounts of printed paper containing tons of personally identifiable information (PII) right into their dumpster sitting behind their building, in the alley, or some other easily reachable public location.
Here’s yet another example of a business throwing away people’s privacy in their trash dumpster…

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Be Prepared For Privacy Breaches!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

This morning I did a podcast interview with bankinfosecurity and they already have it posted!
During the interview I answered and expanded upon five questions and issues:

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There Are MANY Software Licensing and Awareness Tools Available For All Business Sizes and Budgets

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Earlier this week I posted about one of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) initiatives for enforcing software licensing compliance, “Another Approach To Licensing Compliance.”
There are *MANY* software licensing tools and awareness communications that businesses of all sizes, and with all ranges of budgets, can use to effectively track and manage their software licenses, and make their personnel aware of the issues involved with software licensing.

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