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Rebecca Herold
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Rebecca Herold is a Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Risk Management & Governance practice. She is an information privacy, security and compliance consultant, author and instructor. More...

26 July 2007- 12:12 PM

Privacy: Badly Roughed Up But Still Alive and Kicking

When I read Steve Andriole’s recent post (via Cindy Swain), What Are the Rules, I looked at the calendar…no, this was not April 1st.
What a thought-provoking post!
Yes, as some of the comments to Steve’s post indicate, there are definitely some controversial “rules” put forth. To put it mildly. Writing about them all would […]

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18 July 2007- 11:49 AM

Privacy and Security Considerations of Social Networking Sites

Eric Clemons’ post “Valuing Social Networking Websites” is interesting and very timely. Social engineering security and privacy issues are something I have been looking at a lot, and wrote an article addressing some of the issues a couple of months ago, “On The Internet, If It Looks, Quacks and Walks Like a Duck, Is […]

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27 June 2007- 06:26 PM

Are You Prepared For the Unexpected?

Speaking of disasters…
I had the great opportunity to provide analysis for this month’s newly published Cutter Benchmark Review; “Wake Up and Be Prepared: Preventing a Full-Blown Crisis.”
You would think that in this day and age that all organizations would have a documented emergency and disaster plan, wouldn’t you? Well, this survey demonstrates that this is […]

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15 June 2007- 01:48 PM

Do You Have Leaky Data Pipes?

“Data leak” is one of the hot catch-phrases today. And it is no wonder.
Every day, almost literally, there are news stories published about companies losing personally identifiable information (PII) and other types of sensitive information. The data can leak out of a company in about as many ways as you can store or […]

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Privacy: Badly Roughed Up But Still Alive and Kicking