“We Can’t Afford Security and Privacy!”
Recently I was speaking to a healthcare executive (a hospital Chief Financial Officer) at a conference where I had talked in one of the sessions about the needs for information security and privacy not only for compliance reasons, but also to mitigate risks to the business. He seemed a bit short with me when he approached.
Him: “I wish (more…)
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Last week one of my Compliance Helper clients that is a health insurance company asked me the following question (slightly modified to protect their identity):
For the past two years, we have tried to get business associate (BA) Agreements from some of our BAs. They will not (more…)
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I’m getting a lot of déjà vu vibes lately with the old-ish Bruce Willis movie with the catch phrase “I see dead people.” (Remember that?) Only my twist on this phrase for the past few years is, “I see business associates.” A big problem is that (more…)
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A new data breach research report is out, and it is a good read. This is the annual Experian/Ponemon Institute “Is Your Company Ready for a Big Data Breach?” report. I want to focus on one of the findings in that report; that most organizations are not willing to assist those affected by a breach of their personal information. (more…)
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Allowing Wall Street privacy law exemption is crazy! Why, you ask? Why, I’m happy to explain. In March, 2012, I wrote “6 Good Reasons NOT To Ask for Facebook Passwords“. Since that time legislation prohibiting employers from requiring access to their employees’ protected areas of their social media accounts has been introduced or is pending in at least 35 states. Three states–Arkansas, New Mexico and (more…)
Tags:audit, awareness, breach, compliance, data protection, e-mail, electronic mail, email, employees, employment, exception management, facebook, FINRA, hiring, HR, human resources, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, insider threat, insider trading, IT security, job applicants, messaging, midmarket, monitoring, non-compliance, personal information, personally identifiable information, personnel, PHI, PII, policies, policy exception, policy management, privacy, privacy breach, privacy laws, privacy professor, privacyprof, Rebecca Herold, Red Flags, risk, risk assessment, risk management, security, sensitive personal information, social media, social network, SPI, surveillance, systems security, training, twitter, walk through
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