Posts tagged: breach

Lawsuit, breaches and bashing… oh my!

Though it seems obvious that corporations have an obligation to protect the sensitive information they use for business it still amazes me that corporate behavior in this regard is still quite dismissive.  Lawsuits and public embarrassment seem to be the only catalyst for action for many organizations.  That is kind of sad.  Not only is [...]

Tuesday January 19th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Lessons in Due Diligence

An article by Kim Zetter on Wired.com caught my attention:  “Restaurants Sue Vendor for Unsecured Card Processor”. The gist is that several restaurants purchased Point-of-Sale (POS) systems from a particular vendor.  These POS systems that were sold were apparently not Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliant and that resulted in a breach [...]

Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Failures in Leadership, Ethics, and Security

A breach of patient personal information at University Medical Center has all the makings of a made for TV movie or at least provides an opportunity to examine issues in security, leadership, ethics, and even the knee-jerk reaction of ignorant politicians trying to use the opportunity to score some free publicity.  The story “FBI looking [...]

Wednesday November 25th, 2009 in , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

It’s Just One Little E-mail…

How often is e-mail used to send documents and information that contains sensitive information?  I’ve seen consultants share sensitive information about clients this way as well as staff members just “trying to be helpful”.  I’m sure this happens all the time and it can be mitigated through training and providing staff the tools necessary to [...]

Thursday August 6th, 2009 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Business Ethics May Actually Still Exist

T-Mobile is investigating a claim that customer data was stolen and attempts made to sell the information to their competitors.  While data breaches unfortunately seem common, the good news from this story is that T-Mobile’s competitors apparently denied the offer of the theives.  This whole story may be hogwash but even the idea that ethics [...]

Tuesday June 9th, 2009 in , , , | No Comments »