Posts Tagged ‘risks’
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
Do you know how well your vendors, business associates, contracted third parties (who I will collectively call “contractors”) are protecting the information with which you’ve entrusted them to perform some sort of business activity? You need to know.
Late last year, a study of breaches in the retail industry revealed 33 percent of them were from third party vendor access vulnerabilities. The largest healthcare breach in 2014 was from a business associate (the contractor of a hospital system) and involved the records of 4.5 million patients.
The list of breaches caused by contractors throughout all industries could fill a large book. The damage that your third parties can cause to your business can be significant. Do you know the risks that your contractors and other third parties bring to your organization? Or, will your contractors take down your business because of their poor security and privacy practices? (more…)
Tags:business associate, contractor, Dell, Information Security, outsourcing, policies, powermore, privacy, privacy professor, privacyprof, procedures, Rebecca Herold, risk management, risks, toprank, vendor management
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Thursday, December 18th, 2014
Have 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…)
Tags:Data Privacy Day, Dell, dpd, Information Security, information security risks, infosec, personal information, policies, privacy, privacy awareness, privacy information, privacy professor, privacy risks, privacy training, privacyprof, procedures, protecting information journal, Rebecca Herold, risks, sensitive information, sensitive personal data, training
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
This year Admiral Mike Rogers, the current Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service, gave the luncheon keynote address at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Third Annual Cybersecurity Summit, “Sharing Cyber Threat Information to Protect Business and America.” You can find it at: (more…)
Tags:Admiral Rogers, Dell, Information Security, information security risks, infosec, NSA, personal information, policies, privacy, privacy information, privacy professor, privacy risks, privacyprof, procedures, Rebecca Herold, risks, sensitive information, sensitive personal data, training
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Saturday, November 29th, 2014
It is that time of the year again…time for prognostications about the year ahead!
I was asked to provide a few predictions for 2015. Based upon not only what I’ve seen in 2014, but also foreshadowing from the past two-three decades, here are some realistic possibilities. (more…)
Tags:2015 predictions, big data, big data analytics, breaches, Dell, FDA, FTC, HHS, HITECH, Information Security, information security risks, infosec, Internet of Things, IoT, personal health recordsHIPAA, personal information, PHR, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy information, privacy professor, privacy risks, privacyprof, procedures, Rebecca Herold, risks, sensitive information, sensitive personal data, training
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Earlier this year after a session I gave at a conference, an attendee who was new to information security, and had just been assigned this responsibility at a mid-sized organization in the healthcare industry, asked if he could visit with me for a while about risk management. Well, of course! During the course of our conversation I learned that he had gotten some very bad advice about risk management in general, and risk assessments in particular. I know from reading various comments throughout the social media discussion sites that bad advice is becoming far too common, with many (more…)
Tags:compliance, compliance documentation, documentation, HIPAA, Information Security, information security risks, infosec, midmarket, policies, privacy, privacy professor, privacy risks, privacyprof, procedures, Rebecca Herold, risk assessment, risk management, risks, SIMBUS, training
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