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The lost/stolen laptop saga continues...Ernst & Young adds to the list of incidents

The Register reported yesterday more stolen laptops; this time an Ernst & Young employee had a laptop containing personal information for IBM's current and past employees stolen from his/her car.  Traits similar to other laptops that have been lost or stolen:  1)  The laptop was stolen from the E&Y employee's car; 2) The data, including SSNs, birthdates and other personal information easily used for fraud and identity theft, was NOT encrypted.

This event apparently happened in January, but the IBM employees whose personal information was on the laptop were not notified until March.

There have been other E&Y laptops with personal information stolen and lost in the past.

When will companies learn to 1) Train personnel on acceptable physical security for mobile computing devices, and enforce policies addressing such requirements; and 2) Encrypt data on mobile computing devices?

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.