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I read a story about a city government agency actually asking job applicants to provide their IDs and passwords for any online social networking type of site they participate in...
Continue reading Don't Manage Employee Online Activities By Requiring Their IDs & Passwords!...
A type of project I really love to do is a privacy impact assessment (PIA). For companies who collect or otherwise handle the personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals from multiple countries, typically doing a cross border data flow analysis of the PII is within the scope of the PIA.
Continue reading 1746 Organizations In The U.S.'s EU Safe Harbor Program...
On February 12 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the most actively aggressive oversight agency in the U.S. with regard to enforcing privacy protections, released new behavioral advertising principles...
I was very happy to see that President Obama kept his Blackberry, and is using it with super good security controls.
I am even happier to see that he wants to make sure the U.S. has strong cybersecurity in place; I sure hope this helps business leaders to see the need for strong security within their own organizations...
Continue reading President Obama Wants Better Cybersecurity!...
I thought it was pretty silly to read over the past few weeks that President Obama was being pressured to give up his Blackberry because of security reasons. If information security controls are properly implemented, then there is no reason that the president of the U.S., or any other person for that matter, should not use a smartphone!
I was happy to see the following article published by CNN...
Continue reading Business Info Fact Of The Day: Smartphones CAN Be Used Securely!...
Happy U.S. presidential inauguration day! :) Did you take off a few minutes of work to watch the inauguration? I wasn't going to, was planning to just catch videos on the news sites or YouTube later, but then I did, and I'm glad; it was so historical and memorable!
To celebrate, how about I tell you that NIST just made a great new document available...
Continue reading New Guidelines for Safeguarding Personal Data...
I was at an ISACA meeting earlier this week, and over lunch I got into an interesting conversation with a group there about whether or not streaming video feeds were going to be allowed or blocked at the firewall during the inauguration of Barack Obama as U.S. president this coming Tuesday. Some views were that it was an historic event, that most people would not be working any way, and that to maintain goodwill with personnel the streaming videos would be allowed. Others said they would block the streaming video to maintain workable bandwidth, but they were setting up TV monitors throughout the facilities to allow personnel to view if they so chose to; allowing no network impact to others in the company who continued to work.
Continue reading Random thoughts: Network or security changes on inauguration day (1/20)?...
The lack of effective or consistent regulatory oversight over the past 8 years, much of which is blamed in large part for the current economic mess, means, at least to many soothsayers, that a new Obama administration will bring with it not only more aggressive compliance activities, but also a fresh round of new laws and regulations, many of which are anticipated to require much more audit logging, storage and retention, and more stringent access controls.
Continue reading With New Year & New U.S. Administration, New Compliance Actions Projected...
Okay, this story begs the question, why didn't someone at the Naval Research Laboratory notice disappearing equipment...?
Today the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency released a report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th President," that includes recommendations for a comprehensive strategy to improve cybersecurity in federal systems and in critical infrastructure.
Continue reading Recommendations To President Elect Obama For How To Improve Cybersecurity...
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