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2010 – Massive Security Breaches…Lessons Learned

2011-05-03
By: Awareity
On: May 3, 2011
In: *Connecting the Dots Blog*, Health Care

  Check out this recent overview of 10 of the largest data breaches from 2010 resulting in the loss of millions of data records. Lessons Learned: Is your organization providing ongoing situational awareness training?  People are the weak link for the majority of data breaches which are caused by human error, lost devices, social engineering attacks and numerous other poor decisions.  It is critical for organizations to educate their employees (and third-parties) ongoing as risks, threats, requirements, and ’next’ practices are constantly changing.  Lessons learned clearly reveal that once-a-year general training is not enough.Read More →

Veterans Affairs: Why Not Implement Data Breach Lessons Learned?

2010-08-26
By: Awareity
On: August 26, 2010
In: *Connecting the Dots Blog*, Information Privacy, Information Security, Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management

  Dissemination vs. Implementation The Veterans Affairs Department recently announced they will be publishing monthly online accounts of data breaches and lost BlackBerrys and laptops in order to improve accountability and increase transparency. What was shocking to me was that from April through July of this year, the VA has lost 72 BlackBerrys and 34 laptops.  Patient information has been sent to the wrong address or mailed incorrectly 441 times.  There were 9,746 breach incidents involving notifications to patients and 2,501 incidents in which credit reporting was required. Almost 10,000 breach incidents in 3 months!  What is wrong with this picture?  Instead of just disseminatingRead More →

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