Here is another example of what a worker, entrusted with access to business files, can do…and also provides a lesson about business continuity…
I just watched a CNN clip, “Cyber Sabotage” that provides a very good example of how costly the insider threat can be.
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Insider Threat: Worker Deletes 7 Years of Files; Lesson? Make Backups!!
Friday, January 25th, 2008January 28 is International Data Privacy Day
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Did you know that International Data Privacy Day is fast approaching? On Monday, January 28 the United States joins 27 European countries to celebrate Data Privacy Day 2008. “The day will feature several efforts to promote the importance of data protection, including a meeting at Duke University among European and U.S. privacy experts.”
Improve Information Security And Privacy By Engaging Your Personnel And Their Children…Our Future Information Security and Privacy Leaders
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Personnel will understand information security and privacy issues better if they can relate to the issues within their own lives. If they can see how the issues impact their family members and friends, that helps to raise awareness even more. If they can see their children’s perspectives of the issues, and see how their family members may be unknowingly putting their information at risk, it helps them to see even more the importance of the issues, and also helps them to guard against the associated threats even better.
CMS Announces Plans To Actively Audit Hospitals For HIPAA Compliance
Monday, January 21st, 2008The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week that they plan to audit 10 – 20 hospitals for HIPAA compliance in the next 9 months according to a Government Health IT article.
Insider Threat Example: Former Cox Employee Sent To Jail (And More) For Hacking System
Sunday, January 20th, 2008It is not only important, but absolutely necessary, to let personnel know what your information security and privacy policies are, along with your organization’s sanctions, and then consistently enforce your policies. If personnel know that policies are not enforced, and that there is no negative consequence for not properly safeguarding information and systems, it becomes easy for personnel to not follow policies when it is inconvenient or time-consuming to do so. It is also easier for personnel to do bad things as vendettas when they get upset.
FTC Hands Down Another FTC Act Noncompliance Penalty For Bad Online Application Security
Friday, January 18th, 2008Yesterday the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) handed down yet another penalty against an online retailer, Life is good, Inc., for not properly safeguarding their online ecommerce applications.
The FTC charged they were in violation of the FTC Act because they promised in their online privacy statement that they would safeguard their customer data, but yet a hacker “was able to use SQL injection attacks on Life is good’s Web site to access the credit card numbers, expiration dates, and security codes of thousands of consumers.”
Clearly Justify Your Information Security and Privacy Policies
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I’m helping one of my clients with updating their information security and privacy policies, aligning them with ISO 27002, and creating new policies to fill gaps as necessary based upon the organization’s risks. I was speaking with the CISO this week and he made a statement that I’ve heard many times over the years that really is a blockade to advancing information security within most organizations.
“I wish when the CEO rejects a policy he would tell me why. I know he’s short on time, but it would help me do my job so much better if he’d just explain why.”
CMS Hires A Fox To Guard The HIPAA Henhouse
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008I just read a very interesting article, “CMS’ HIPAA watchdog presents potential conflict” that made me go Hmmm!!
The genesis of the article is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that is responsible for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) oversight and compliance enforcement, has contracted PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to perform HIPAA Security Rule compliance audits during 2008.
Man Pleads Guilty To Loading Keylogger Software On Public Computers Worldwide To Collect PII and Commit Fraud
Monday, January 14th, 2008Here’s another good example of an actual cybercrime that was allowed to occur because poor of safeguards on computers provided for public use.
On January 9, 2008, Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla plead guilty to installing keylogger software on hotel business center and Internet cafe computers located in hotels throughout the world that allowed him to access the bank and other financial accounts of over 600 individuals.
