data security Archive
I did a presentation earlier this week at NITES, in Ireland. My topic was data protection and governance. I took the opportunity to make a number of linked points: We already have data protection legislation in the EU and US; These …
Lots of organisations think they don’t need to worry about theft of credit card data. I don’t know why. Payment card data theft is now big business – the level of professionalism available in this industry includes the development of …
Search Security published this, on 29 July 2008: Last week, the MoD was forced, in an answer to a parliamentary question, to admit that during the last four years, 658 of its laptops were stolen, and another 89 lost. Only …
The Realtime IT Compliance blog carried a significant post the other day – the first signs of US civil lawsuits against companies losing customer data. In this case, it is a $54 million claim against Best Buy for losing a …
For those boardrooms still slow to grasp the strategic importance of IT governance and information security, the BBC offers a nice simple graph to bring home the scale of the challenge. It comments: “Reports vary but some estimates suggest there …
The private sector needs to take data privacy more seriously if it is to stop the Information Commissioner’s Office getting the power to audit their information security systems without warning. According to ComputerWeekly, this is the warning from James Alexander, …
Also from ComputerWeekly, Chief Information Officers need to take a leading role in setting up formal information classification schemes to stop them over-engineering them to comply with security regulations, according to a report from the Information Security Forum. Well, yes …
The UK government claimed that the person who burnt the HMRC child benefit database to a disc and mailed it to the National Audit Office (NAO) was a relatively junior civil servant who had breached rules and would be subject …
The increasing incidence and serious nature of internal threats to the security of corporate information is well demonstrated by the recent need for Cable & Wireless to injunct a former executive to hand a 100,00-strong customer database back to her …
According to a new study of 500 IT and HR professionals, 45 percent of businesses fail to train staff in handling sensitive corporate data, and 46 percent have no plans to introduce such training. With Marks & Spencer providing the …
