Tag Archives: nonpublic personal information
Convenience vs. Data Breaches … Avoidance is an Answer
March 26, 2013 – 6:00 am
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In “If You’re Collecting Our Data, You Ought to Protect It” in the Business Section of The New York Times of February 17, 2013, Natasha Singer describes how a data breach involving the personal nonpublic information of some 40,000 current and former NASA employees was preceded by an…
Data Classification: Begin With Your Personally Identifiable Information
June 3, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Let’s face it: Data classification—despite being an information security “best practice”— is an expensive, time-consuming, labor-intensive task. For those organizations supporting thousands (or even hundreds) of applications and databases, the job of identifying all data elements and…