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New FTC Report Provides Organizations Good Guidance For Protecting PII

Today the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report, "Combating Identity Theft: Implementing a Coordinated Plan."

It provides some very good and interesting information that organizations could use in their own awareness efforts in demonstrating to personnel what they can do during their work activities to help protect personally identifiable information (PII) that they are handling.

There are also some very good references to situations and incidents that organizations could use for case studies. The information in the footnotes contains a ton of great information.

Section III provides a description of the FTC's actions for what they are doing to combat identity theft. Organizations can modify many of these to fit their own organization's privacy protection program.

Organizations should also take heed for what the FTC says organizations should be doing to protect privacy; the best compliance advice comes from documents such as this from the regulatory oversight agencies.

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Rebecca Herold's Bio:

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.