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Business Info Fact Of The Day: Smartphones CAN Be Used Securely!

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...

"Obama to get spy-proof smartphone"

Information technology CAN be built securely. The problems are...

* too many technology vendors do not take the time or effort to do so,
* too few technology users know anything about how to secure their computing devices
* too few companies provide training or awareness communications about information security and privacy to their personnel

It is good to see the leader of the U.S. setting a good example for information security!

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 23, 2009 3:56 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 the past two decades. 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 world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. 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 13th 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.