Just last month I blogged about the new Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2008. It covers extortion. I’m interested to see if it gets used for the latest extortion attempt…
Posts Tagged ‘privacy training’
Cybercriminals Threaten To Post Millions Of PII Records For Express Scripts Customers
Friday, November 7th, 2008State of New York Issues Guide For Protecting PII
Thursday, November 6th, 2008The State of New York just released a general guide to the protection of personally identifiable information (PII)…
Email “Hack” Tells University Students & Staff That U.S. President Vote Is “Tomorrow”
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Here’s another email incident example to add to your files…
New Examiner Instructions From The OTS For Red Flags Rule Enforcement
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Organizations that are covered by regulations will do themselves a free compliance favor by reading…and knowing…what the examiners will be looking for when they visit to do their compliance audits.
Use Case Studies To Make Learning More Effective
Friday, October 31st, 2008I’m in the process of updating the case studies for the 2-day class I’m giving…TWICE…in the next few weeks, “Information Security and Privacy Convergence and Collaboration.”
First in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted by the Michigan InfraGard and the West Michigan Chapter of ISACA on November 12 and 13.
Second immediately following the CSI Annual conference in National Harbor, MD (just south of D.C.) on November 20 and 21…
Use Case Studies To Make Learning More Effective
Friday, October 31st, 2008I’m in the process of updating the case studies for the 2-day class I’m giving…TWICE…in the next few weeks, “Information Security and Privacy Convergence and Collaboration.”
First in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted by the Michigan InfraGard and the West Michigan Chapter of ISACA on November 12 and 13.
Second immediately following the CSI Annual conference in National Harbor, MD (just south of D.C.) on November 20 and 21…
Use Case Studies To Make Learning More Effective
Friday, October 31st, 2008I’m in the process of updating the case studies for the 2-day class I’m giving…TWICE…in the next few weeks, “Information Security and Privacy Convergence and Collaboration.”
First in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted by the Michigan InfraGard and the West Michigan Chapter of ISACA on November 12 and 13.
Second immediately following the CSI Annual conference in National Harbor, MD (just south of D.C.) on November 20 and 21…
Audit Shows That After 5 Years CMS *STILL* Has No Documented Procedures For Ensuring HIPAA compliance
Thursday, October 30th, 2008This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a very interesting assessment of how well, and how effectively, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was performing their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) oversight responsibilities.
Audit Shows That After 5 Years CMS *STILL* Has No Documented Procedures For Ensuring HIPAA compliance
Thursday, October 30th, 2008This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a very interesting assessment of how well, and how effectively, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was performing their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) oversight responsibilities.
Create A Clear Education Strategy BEFORE Asking Executives for Training and Awareness Support
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Information security, privacy, and compliance practitioners must obtain the support of executive management to be successful. So how do you do this?
I talk about this in the first section of the first article of my October issue of “IT Compliance in Realtime Journal.”
Here is the unformatted version of the first section of the first article; download the PDF to see a much nicer-looking version…