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"Secure Your ID Day" is April 18

I'm in Omaha to speak tomorrow at the Infotec09 conference and I heard on the local news that "Secure Your ID Day" is April 18...

Really!? I hadn't heard about this until now. No, wait...I blogged about this last year...when it was held in September!

Is this a semi-annual event now?

Turns out many Better Business Bureaus across the U.S. are participating and hosting a variety of events on this day. Many of them are providing free on-site document shredding.

Here in Omaha folks can get their documents shredded free, as well as attend a variety of education events.

You can see a list of all the cities participating here.

Hey Iowa; why aren't your BBB offices and shredding vendors participating? Maybe because you just observed this day in September?

I'm all for providing ongoing awareness communications and events, but it's a bit confusing calling different days during the year as the same label.

Regardless, if you have an event going on this Saturday, consider checking it out!

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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.