by Paul Lanois
On July 25, 2019, New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic
Data Security Act (Senate Bill S.5575B), also known as the "SHIELD Act", which amends New
York’s breach notification law and creates new...
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A good article one could share with colleagues on the pitfalls of email and how to better organize email.
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Information Security In an Insecure World
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 8:15-4:45
Grant Thornton LLP, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, 15th Floor, Arlington, VA 22209
Jointly presented by
the Northern Virginia and Metropolitan Maryland chapters of ARMA
The
importance of information security has been steadily rising...
Jeff Hancock likes to give his Stanford University students weekend assignments that let them experience concepts discussed in class for themselves. Before 2008, he would sometimes challenge his students to stay off the internet for 48 hours and then discuss...
Helpful tips from Polygon on how to recover books, papers, and files after natural disasters.
Yes, the title is snarky! Recent records found in a landfill in 2020! Check out this story here.
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Nov 7, 2019
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed a $1,600,000 civil money penalty against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TX HHSC), for violations of the...
CompTIA announced last week they have a testing at home offering with a discount.
"In a time when building IT skills seems vital, CompTIA has you covered. With digital learning tools that you can launch today and convenient online testing...
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Check out this great overview about CCPA training from Professor Solove.
As the article states, NASA has hundreds of petabytes of data to store in the cloud, but a recent audit shows they forgot to explore all the costs.
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The NAGARA Internship Program provides a $1,500 stipend to each of two students enrolled in archival and/or records management graduate programs. The internships will occur during the Summer of 2020 at one of two locations:
~ Greene County
Records Center and...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia’s competition watchdog on Monday recommended tougher scrutiny and a new regulatory body to check the dominance of tech giants Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google in the country’s online advertising and news markets.
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Based on the complaint, it sounds like he went above and beyond, not just to help prevent the attack on Tesla, but also to help the FBI find out more about the group.
May 25, 2021
Clinical Laboratory Pays $25,000 to Settle Potential HIPAA Security Rule Violations
Peachstate Health Management, LLC, doing business as AEON Clinical Laboratories (Peachstate), has agreed to pay $25,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department...
Some of the hard drives containing unencrypted customer data were sold on auction sites.
Read about this significant breach on images here.
The Information Governance Maturity Index Report—2021 presents the results of the third annual IG Maturity Index Survey conducted in the last quarter of 2021. The survey and index are intended to create a definitive, data-driven benchmark for information governance...
Perhaps your business or organization has suffered recent document damage – due to a fire, earthquake or flood, for example. Or maybe you have simply decided to back up and digitize hard copies of important documents for future safekeeping. In either case, one very important aspect of document restoration or scanning is security.