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June 25, 2009

Voice Recognition Software Puts Top Cop In Hot Water

Yesterday I read a fascinating story from Australia...

 
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April 9, 2009

You aren't in Kansas anymore, ToTo...you're in virtual Kansas!

Oh; and, by the way, what the heck are virtual worlds? Aren't they something that only kids use?

 
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March 4, 2009

A Cornucopia Of Audit, Information Security and GRC Information

It was great to see Dan Swanson include some of my resources in his Security Insider blog posting today!

 
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March 3, 2009

31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days

I've been running across many interesting and useful news reports and pieces of information over the past few days, and putting them out on my Twitter peeps/tweeps/tweets/etc. For posterity and my own future reference, here's a listing of the ones from the past few days I want to be able to look back upon without paging through multiple posts on my PrivacyProf account...

 
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February 25, 2009

7 Info Sec & Privacy Tidbits

Today I spent a lot of time in phone meetings and doing research. So, instead of focusing on writing about one topic today, here are my tweets I sent out, that cover a wide range of topics...

 
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February 18, 2009

I'm Now Tweeting!

I just jumped on the Twitter bandwagon...

 
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Humorous Security Calendar

Check out a sample month of a humorous information security wall calendar that Rick Lawhorn created that "tracks notable breaches, infosec facts and viruses."

February 13, 2009

Using Facebook To Serve Lien Notices

I just ran across this article while doing some research, and it made me go, "Whoa!"...

 
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February 12, 2009

FYI: Stamp Price Increases In May

Just something to know...

 
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February 3, 2009

Surveillance: I Spy With My Little Eye Some Potlikker Pie

Do any of you really think that there is a single place on earth that cannot be looked down upon from satellites too high in the sky to see with the naked eye? Google continues their march to know all and see all...

 
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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 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.