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Don't let differing authority levels damage info sec, privacy & compliance collaboration

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+...

Employee Suing Starbucks For Poor Security & Laptop Theft

Here's an interesting progression in how to address the growing data breaches that occur largely from ignored, overlooked, and/or inadequate security practices......

Tell Personnel How to Protect Mobile Computing Devices and Storage Media

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...

Make Your Personnel Aware Of Mobile Computing Security Requirements

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...

Six Ways Organizations Can Lessen Mobile Computing Risks

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,...

Mobile Computing Security Problems Exist Throughout the World

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...

Yet Another Stolen Laptop With Clear Text Patient PII

Yet another in a long procession of laptop thefs, "Stolen laptop contains personal info of 2,500 patients". Here are the first few paragraphs......

Trending Towards More Business Applied Employee Sanctions For Security Incidents

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...

Laptop Theft: Financial Company Given $1.9 Million Penalty Following Incident for Inadequate Security Program

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...

Privacy Breach: FBI Loses Laptops Each Month Despite 2002 Audit Telling Them To Improve Practices

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...

Laptop Theft Incident: Laptop Security Leads To Catching Drug Dealers

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...

Laptop Incident: N.C. Dept of Revenue Laptop Theft Puts 30,000 Residents At Risk

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...

Stolen Laptop: Laptop and Printouts with PII about 600 Students in Colorado

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...

Stolen Laptop: Cleartext Medical PII on 25,000 in Pennsylvania

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...

Stolen Laptop: 3rd Theft from Boeing Since November 2005; Clear Text PII of 382,000 On the Latest

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...

Penalty Applied for Laptop Theft: More Significant Penalties Are Needed to Motivate Better Safeguards

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...

Laptop Theft: PII About 1,000 W.Va. Air National Guard Members

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...

GPS Tracking Urged As a Laptop Security Measure

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...

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