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Vermont Incident Demonstrates Many Security Snafus

Here's a Vermont incident reported yesterday that includes many compliance and information privacy and security topics...

  • Theft of a laptop from car
  • Reasons why large databases of personal information should not be stored on mobile computing devices
  • Unauthorized disclosure of personal information
  • The need to report breaches of personal data quickly
  • The ease with which emails can be spoofed
  • The need to encrypt confidential information in storage as well as in transit

This indicident really did cover almost the gamut of security gone wrong.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 3, 2006 7:46 PM |

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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.