Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'stolen laptop'
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
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 30, 2008 2:42 PM
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?...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on October 10, 2007 4:28 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 7, 2007 10:01 AM
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:...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 6, 2007 11:50 AM
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"...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 27, 2006 9:08 AM
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