Bob Evans reports: The World Bank (annual IT budget about $250 million) has been hit by a range of data breaches, at least one of which involved info belonging to staffers. So a corporate guy overseeing IT has sent a flaccid memo to the whole organization. Take a look at the memo and ask yourself…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Breach analyses
Edward D. Murphy has an article about the recent Maine breach study in the Portland Press Herald, here. And over on Chronicles of Dissent, I analyze and comment on some of ITRC’s 2008 statistics and year-end roundup here and here.
Vonage customer data on Google Notebook
With all the advice we see these days about hardening security, this might be a good time to remember the importance of both having stringent security standards written into any contractor agreements and actually monitoring compliance with any contracts or policies. A recent breach reported by Vonage serves as a useful example. On December 23,…