Posts Tagged ‘privacy training’

Rights for Privacy Breach Victims

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I received a provacative question on Twitter last week from idExperts, “If you had a wish list of rights for identity theft victims, what would that be?”
Sounds like a great blog topic! 🙂 Here are my thoughts…

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Common InfoSec & Privacy Training Mistakes

Monday, June 1st, 2009

I’ve been reviewing some of the information security and privacy training and awareness content for some organizations; some large and some small. Most of the training is ineffective…

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Insider Threat: Horrible Tragedy Highlights Need For Policies & Training

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I got the June 1 issue of Newsweek today, and something that’s bothered me ever since I first heard about it was on page 4…

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HIPAA, HITECH Act and Disposal Problems

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Here’s yet another incident that provides very good lessons that could be incorporated into information security and privacy training sessions as a case study, particularly for HIPAA compliance as well as secure disposal training…

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The World’s Largest (and BEST!) Cyber Defense Competition for Teens…In Ames Iowa!

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Last month Iowa State University, in Ames, held a unique type of IT Olympics for teens…

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Effectively Explaining the Purpose of Information Classification to Employees

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

The topic for my Q2 2009 issue of Protecting Information was helping employees to understand why different types of information need different levels of security. Yes, this is information classification, but I describe it in a way that employees of all levels and responsibilities throughout an organization can understand, here’s how…

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HITECH Act does *NOT* make HIPAA, or HIPAA advice, “obsolete”!

Monday, May 18th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I was surprised and concerned by a statement made in one of my many listservs by a lawyer commenting on HIPAA books and past advice given for HIPAA compliance…

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Secure360 Starts Tomorrow!

Monday, May 11th, 2009

I drove up to St. Paul, MN, today and will be speaking, and look forward to attending the sessions, at Secure360.

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Regulatory Requirements for Training and Awareness

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Today I had a great conversation with a CISO about the regulatory and legal requirements for organizations to provide information security and privacy training and awareness activities…

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Podcast: HITECH Act adds new compliance requirements, penalties

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Alexander B. Howard at SearchCompliance.com for a 26 minute podcast…

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