Cybersecurity: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Defining and Coordinating the Comprehensive National Initiative GAO-10-338 March 5, 2010 Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 64 pages) Recommendations (HTML) Summary: In response to the ongoing threats to federal systems and operations posed by cyber attacks, President Bush established the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) in…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Report confirms private banking websites are flouting client privacy
Tara Loader Wilkinson reports: According to a report published by Swiss research group MyPrivateBanking last week, 61% of banks do not offer secure web messaging. And nearly 60% do not give privacy warnings to users of their website about sending unprotected e-mails to recipients at the bank. […] More than half of banks offered a…
ICO outlines business case for privacy
In The Privacy Dividend, a report published on 4 March 2010, it said public and private sector organisations can use business cases to justify spending on privacy protection. It says the benefits of protecting privacy derive from four areas in which information has value. Firstly, protecting personal information as an asset can help to make…
Medical identity theft strikes 5.8% of American adults
Ellen Messmer reports: Identity thieves are not only interested in tapping financial resources, but are also after your medical identification data and services. Medical identity theft typically involves stolen insurance card information, or costs related to medical care and equipment given to others using the victim’s name. Roughly 5.8% of American adults have been victimized,…
Verizon releases framework for reporting security incidents
William Jackson reports: Verizon Business on Monday released for public use a framework for collecting and reporting information about security incidents in the hope of creating a standardized way for government and industry to share information about breaches. “If we don’t have a common language to collect and communicate data, we are going to be…
OCR/HHS reveals two more breaches
The public list of breaches reported to HHS under the HITECH Act was updated to add two entries. Both entries are associated with the same business associate: MSO of Puerto Rico. I do not see anything on the web sites of the covered entities or the business associate about the incident nor did I see…