Last week fellow IBM Midsize blogger Jason Hannula wrote about Gartner’s prediction that by 2018 more than 50% of all folks will use their mobile computing devices in the workplace before, or instead of, using a desktop or laptop. That’s just three short years away. We already have an abundance of mobile devices being used in a wide range of industries. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘privacy training’
Addressing Mobile Risks in 2015
Wednesday, December 24th, 2014Improve Information Security and Privacy Now!
Monday, December 22nd, 2014Too many businesses have poor information security controls in place (e.g,. demonstrably Sony, Staples, and a seemingly infinite number of other companies) and are basically giving their intellectual property, and the personal information they are responsible for, away.
A recent Sailpoint survey reveals that: (more…)
5 Effective Ways to Raise Privacy Awareness
Thursday, December 18th, 2014Have you made plans for Data Privacy Day (DPD) yet? What, you’ve never heard of DPD? You can see more about it here. Or, have you heard about DPD, but you’ve not yet had time to plan for it? Well, I love doing information security and privacy awareness activities and events! I’ve been doing them for 2 ½ decades, and have written about them often, and included a listing of 250 awareness activities in my Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program book.
Here are five of the ways that I’ve found to be very effective for raising privacy awareness throughout the years. (more…)
The 3 Necessary Elements for Effective Information Security Management
Thursday, December 11th, 2014Seeing all these really bad information security incidents and privacy breaches, often daily, are so disappointing. Let’s consider these four in particular.
- The Sony hack that seems to continue to get worse as more details are reported.
- An ER nurse using the credit cards of patients.
- Breaches of Midwest Women’s Healthcare patient records due to poor disposal practices at the Research Hospital.
- TD Bank’s outsourced vendor losing two backup tapes containing data about 260,000 of their customers.
And the list could continue for pages.
These incidents, and most others, probably could have been prevented if an effective information security and privacy management program existed that was built around three primary core elements: (more…)
Every Organization with Personal Information Needs to Do a Privacy Impact Assessment
Thursday, December 11th, 2014Today I had a great meeting with Sarah Cortes, with whom I am doing a session at the North America CACS ISACA conference in March. (I see I need to ask them to add Sarah’s name!)
I’m also going to teach a 2-day workshop (~4 hours each day), “Conducting A Privacy Impact Assessment” on March 18 & 19.
Every organization that handles personal information (PI) of any kind or form needs to know how to do a privacy impact assessment (PIA). And if you have PI from any type of individual, be it a customer, patient, employee, contractor, job applicant, etc., you need to make sure you are protecting, using and sharing the PI appropriately. A PIA will reveal where you are at risk with meeting your privacy obligations. Attend my PIA class in March and I will be happy to help you know how, or improve upon how you perform PIAs!
Can’t go to the conference for some reason? I can still help you! I have a PIA Toolkit you can use.
Any questions? Let me know!
Don’t Let School Break Be A Privacy Break-In!
Friday, June 3rd, 2011A couple of days ago I published my monthly Privacy Professor Tips message, “Summer Break-in.” I provide these tips free to anyone who wants to sign up for it on my web site and fills out one of the boxes that says, (more…)
Smart Grid Privacy: Possible Privacy Standards To Address Concerns
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Sorry to be so tardy in getting a blog post out. As many of you know I’ve been working with the NIST Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup since late June. The work done for this group is through time volunteered by all involved.
As a quick recap, I led the privacy impact assessment (PIA) for the consumer-to-utility portion of the planned smart grid during the late June to late August/early September time frame. On Friday, 11/20, I provided an update on our NIST groups activities during the Gridwise Alliance phone conference; perhaps some of you were on that call?
Here are some links showing information about our NIST Smart Grid privacy group’s work:
15 Smart Grid Privacy Concerns + Other Smart Grid Thoughts
Monday, November 9th, 2009I’ve had about half a dozen folks ask me how things are going with the work I’m doing with the NIST Smart Grid privacy group, and if I could provide an update since my last couple of posts on the topic here and here.
The time is going by much too quickly, and I am getting a bit nervous as we get closer to when we need to have the next draft of the NISTIR ready, tentatively set for December 31; there is so much more to do in this VOLUNTEER group effort…
HIPAA And Surveillance In Hospitals
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Over the years there have been many…too many…instances where doctors have performed the wrong types of surgeries on patients, and even the wrong surgeries on completely wrong patients…
