Posted by Ken Leeser in Compliance, Information Security Plan, Policies
September
25

Here in Massachusetts we are faced with a first in the nation Personal Data Privacy Protection regulation which is meant to motivate businesses to institute best practices with regard to protecting the personal information of residents of the Commonwealth.
 
The regulation outlines some specific things a business should do to become compliant with the law. Step [...]

Posted by Ken Leeser in Compliance, Password strength, Policies
July
17

On the Kaliber Web Site I recently linked to an article from the New York Times technolgy feed which discussed how Twitter’s coporate email accounts on Google Apps were hacked: http://www.kaliberdatasecurity.com/newsdetails.php?id=11
So what simple things can be done to protect our information with so much of our lives and data being stored on the web?
The first [...]

Posted by Ken Leeser in Massachusetts Data Privacy, Policies
June
10

It is important to have a strategy for developing, communicating and enforcing a set of policies and practices that reflect a company’s standards of acceptable behavior. In today’s workplace, an employer can be held liable for the bad behavior of an employee, especially when that bad behavior affects other employees, clients or individuals.
For example, in [...]