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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...

A Stolen Health Insurer's Laptop With PII Is Not Necessarily A HIPAA Violation

While scanning the news blurb summaries today, the statement, "This is a violation of HIPAA." caught my eye. Hmm...let's see what this is about... This statement was actually within the reader comments to the story, "Blue Cross reports theft of...

Iowa Universities Provide Examples of Good and Bad Information Security and Privacy

In the past week the two largest universities in Iowa provided examples of both great and poor security practices. Let's see...how about the bad example first?...

New Benchmark Research Report Released Today from IT Policy Compliance (ITPC): "Taking Action to Protect Sensitive Data"

Today IT Policy Compliance released a new benchmark research report, "Taking Action to Protect Sensitive Data." I had the great oppportunity to not only have a sneak peak at the report, but also to speak yesterday about the report with...

How Good are the Security Practices for "America's Most Admired Companies 2007"?

Yesterday CNN reported the results of the FORTUNE 2007 survey of business people for the companies, in any industry, they admired most. The rankings were based upon 8 key score areas:...

DOT Stolen Laptop: Arrest Made

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) laptop stolen in July containing information "such as names, addresses, social security numbers, and dates of bith—on more than 130,000 individuals who were issued driver’s and pilot licenses in the Tampa and Miami areas"...

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