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HIPAA, HITECH Act and Disposal Problems

Here's yet another incident that provides very good lessons that could be incorporated into information security and privacy training sessions as a case study, particularly for HIPAA compliance as well as secure disposal training......

Blackberry Disposal Lessons From McCain & Palin

Another real-life example to show the importance of having effective policies and procedures in place for not only information disposal, but also for the disposal of computers and storage media......

More Data Retention Tips And Considerations

Here are some more data retention tips and considerations as a follow-up to my Tuesday blog post......

Do You Know Your Data Retention Requirements?

There have been several interesting news reports recently about data retention proposals, plans, practices and laws in the U.K. Currently there are proposals to require emails to be retained for a full year, but critics contend that sloppy data retention...

Company Uses Negotiated Checks For Packing Material!

Not much surprises me any more with regard to some of the silly things that organizations do with printed PII that put the involved individuals at risk. However, I was surprised when I watched an ABC News report this morning......

Texas EZPawn Throws Away Its Security Promises and Customers' Privacy and Gets A Handed A Significant Penalty

Well, here is yet another company that had a nasty habit of just throwing papers containing their customers' personally identifiable information (PII) into publicly accessible trash cans. On June 24 a Texas judge handed down a civil penalty of $600,000...

Average Cost of ID Theft Per Victim is $31,356

Finally, a report that looks much more accurate with regard to how much identity theft costs the VICTIMS of a privacy breach. Most reported victim costs that I have seen in the past seemed much too low considering all the...

Insider Threat Example: Leaked Clinton Memo Provides At Least 5 Good Security Lessons

Mid-last week it was widely reported, probably more so in the national news than here in Iowa, that one of Hillary Clinton's top campaign folks had written a memo to her urging her to skip Iowa and focus on other...

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