Topic: Information Privacy

Incident response: Ground control

When the going gets tough, Lockheed Martin CISO Chandra McMahon responds with mature incident response, says Dan Kaplan.When the going gets tough, Lockheed Martin CISO Chandra McMahon responds with mature incident response, says Dan Kaplan.For Chandra McMahon, being in charge of information ...

A flight or fight response?

Transparency after a breach does more than save face.Most information security professionals and their corporate leaders would prefer to keep the cyberattacks experienced by their companies to themselves. And, they can do this, in many instances. After all, the various compliance mandates ...
After being vetoed twice by the prior administration, a bill that updates California's pioneering data breach notification law was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown.After being vetoed twice by the prior administration, a bill that updates California's pioneering data breach ...
Amid a hodgepodge of national laws, calls for a global data exchange standard grow louder as sensitive data traverses national boundaries.Amid a hodgepodge of national laws, calls for a global data exchange standard grow louder, reports Greg Masters.Pirates continue to plunder the ...
Another federal data breach notification bill has cleared a U.S. House subcommittee, but both parties are clashing over what constitutes personal information.A House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday approved legislation that would establish a national data breach notification law and require companies ...

Groupon data collection scrutinized by Congress

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc's privacy and data-collection policies came under congressional scrutiny on Thursday, the latest sign of regulatory pressure on the largest online daily deals company.Representatives Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), co-chairmen of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy ...

Nordic countries grill Facebook on privacy

Data protection agencies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland have quizzed social network giant Facebook on its management of users' private information, they said Tuesday."This is a common action to obtain better knowledge of how personal information is handled by the world's ...
Indianapolis-based health insurer WellPoint will pay $100,000 to settle a data breach that exposed the personal information of 32,000 of its Indiana customers.Indianapolis-based health insurer WellPoint will pay $100,000 to settle a data breach that exposed the personal information of 32,000 Indiana ...

Me and my job: Peter Morin

I would improve communication regarding threats between corporations, law enforcement and other government agencies.How do you describe your job to average people? I am responsible for a specialized team that monitors our network for security indicators which may suggest an attack, responds ...
The federal breach notification law, proposed by President Obama, should replace existing state laws.FORDavid Seltzer, South Florida criminal defense attorney who specializes in cybercrimesFederal legislation resolving the various state laws and issues is a good thing, so long as it does not ...