Is your CEO criminally liable if discarded data devices aren’t clean?
Is your CEO criminally liable if discarded data devices aren’t clean? IT professionals are often frustrated by CEOs and corporate executives who don’t prioritize data security. This is frequently a case of priorities and personalities rather than rational decision making. Last week we wrote about corporate executives imprisoned for improper disposal of technology waste. This […]
Retiring point of sale terminals? Protect your data.
Retiring point of sale terminals? Protect your data. We’ve all been to the grocery store, tried to sign the screen for our credit card purchase, and watched as our careful signature is rendered as an illegible scrawl. In-store credit card terminals and point of sale (POS) terminals don’t last forever. But what happens when they […]
Patient data safety: Don’t leave it to the laundry department!
Patient data safety: Don’t leave it to the laundry department! Twice this spring, sensitive medical data from major New York hospitals were copied onto flash drives, exposing patient medical data to anyone who might find the drives. These were not spent server hard drives or sophisticated backup drives. These were simple flash drives — the […]
Middle school teachers aren’t data security agents. They need help.
Middle school teachers aren’t data security agents. They need help. Earlier this year in a small town in Georgia, a middle school teacher saved a spreadsheet of student data from a school computer onto a flash drive, so she could take it home. The teacher left the flash drive in her car. You can guess […]
Data Breach at Cleveland Area Hospital
Just last week it was reported that University Hospital had a hard drive taken from their facility after a third-party vendor performed a routine update to a computer system on their campus. It is not known exactly what information was contained on the drive but it was reported the drive most likely contained patient […]