Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'laptop theft'
I first realized the need for information security and legal compliance areas to closely collaborate on converging issues in the mid-1990's while establishing the information security and privacy requirements for one of the first online banks. Over the past 5+...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 26, 2009 10:46 PM
Here's an interesting progression in how to address the growing data breaches that occur largely from ignored, overlooked, and/or inadequate security practices......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 24, 2009 8:02 PM
You can't expect your personnel to know how to safeguard information and computing devices if you do not tell them *HOW* to safeguard them! Humans are not born with an inherent instinct to automatically safeguard information assets. In fact, some...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 24, 2008 8:20 PM
If you don't encrypt sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) on mobile computers, you are at very high risk of having that information breached. It seems that laptops practically scream "Take me!" to any potential swindler who happens to pass...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 23, 2008 9:42 AM
Geesh, every single day there is at least one news report about a stolen or lost mobile (laptop, notebook, PDA, Blackberry, etc.) computer! Today one of the reports was about a laptop computer, containing cleartext information about 11,000 hospital patients,...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 20, 2008 1:22 PM
Every day, literally, I read news reports about lost or stolen laptops. Today is no exception. The news report, "A Misconfigured Laptop, a Wrecked Life," chronicles how one man had his first work laptop stolen, and then he was fired...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 18, 2008 2:24 PM
Yet another in a long procession of laptop thefs, "Stolen laptop contains personal info of 2,500 patients". Here are the first few paragraphs......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 25, 2008 9:31 AM
I've been noticing lately more and more organizations sanctioning their employees for not following information security policies. I first blogged about it recently on September 24 about a hospital actively enforcing sanctions for HIPAA violations, then again on October 10...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on October 15, 2007 7:39 PM
For the first time, the United Kingdom financial regulators, the U.K. Financial Services Authority (FSA), gave a financial institution, the Nationwide Building Society, the U.K.'s largest "building society" (a member-owned mortgage lending and banking services institution) a penalty for poor...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 20, 2007 8:32 PM
Today the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the "The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Control Over Weapons and Laptop Computers Follow-Up Audit" report. As you can tell by my post title, this should be a very embarrassing report for the...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 12, 2007 11:11 PM
Some interesting news from right here in my back yard this week... The Des Moines Register reported that a laptop was stolen along with other items stolen during a home burglery. The computer had a location-monitoring type of anti-theft package...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 26, 2007 11:10 AM
Today the North Carolina Charlotte Observer reported a laptop was stolen from the car of an N.C. Department of Revenue employee in December. They mailed letters to all 30,000 individuals this week. According to the report this is the first...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 13, 2007 8:27 PM
The Longmont, CO Daily Times reported December 14 that a nurse's laptop was stolen from her car whle she was parked at a restaurant, along with paper records containing personally identifiable information (PII): "students’ names and dates of birth; the...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 17, 2006 7:50 PM
On December 14 WCPO TV 9 News reported: "A break-in in Springdale, Ohio is affecting thousands of people in Pennsylvania. The office of Electronic Registry Systems on Northland Boulevard was broken into Thanksgiving weekend and a computer was stolen. That...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 17, 2006 7:28 PM
It was reported December 15 that Boeing had the 3rd laptop stolen in just a little over a year. The laptop was stolen from an employee's car. PII included "names, home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and dates of...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 17, 2006 6:09 PM
The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that "Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. will pay $25,000 to settle a probe of how one of its laptop computers went missing with the personal data of thousands of Massachusetts residents." An Ameriprise Financial Services laptop...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 14, 2006 11:08 AM
A report in the Air Force Times indicates a laptop containing personally identifiable information (PII) about 1,000 West Virginia Air National Guard members was stolen during a training trip in November. The spokesperson for the Air National Guard indicated: "The...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 6, 2006 2:16 PM
A solution for addressing laptop thefts and losses was described in a press release today. The product uses GPS in combination with encryption to locate stolen and lost laptops quickly in addition to being able to delete sensitive files from...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on October 21, 2006 4:52 PM
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