Email to the editor: ‘Data security: The missing piece of e-discovery’

This post below is an email to the editor received from Robert DeFazio of Calabria Consulting, responding to Data security: The missing piece of e-discovery” by Paul Roberts. This views expressed are...
Information technology: Key enabler to a sustainability strategy

Adam Werbach is Global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, a sustainability agency, and author of a new book, Strategy for Sustainability. Werbach writes that, “sustainability initiative(s) must be core...
Twitter security hole highlights need for a social media policy today

Once again, Twitter security is in the headlines. Yesterday, SEO expert Dave Naylor posted that James Slater had found a
Capability and Maturity Model Creation in Information Security

This is a guest post from Secure Payments and Chaordic Design Evangelist Michael Dahn. He blogs frequently about PCI and information security at ChaordicMind.com. Contact him there or follow @sfoak on...
Clarifying mobile encryption requirements for 201 CMR 17.00 compliance

When I reported on amendments to the Massachusetts data protection law earlier this week, one of the comments that undersecretary of consumer affairs Barbara Anthony made was a point of interest...
Amended Massachusetts data protection act focuses on risk management

As Alexander Howard reported earlier today, the Massachusetts data protection law has been amended. The revised data privacy regulations -- 201 CMR 17.00, “Standards for the Protection of...
The impact of Stengart v Loving Care on employee online privacy

This is a guest post from SearchCompliance.com contributor Andrew M. Baer, Esq. You can follow him at @baerbizlaw on Twitter. The Stengart v. Loving Care case...
3 social media questions for compliance officers to consider

My recently published series on online privacy and social media compliance is resulting in some feedback from our audience, as you might imagine. Scott Crawford, managing research director for...
201 CMR 17 FAQ: Updates to Massachusetts data protection law

Earlier today, the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) issued an update to 201.CMR.17, the
Standards aren’t security: PCI compliance and Heartland’s data breach

As of Aug. 10, the Identity Theft Resource Center had reported 333 data breaches in 2009,...