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Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security: The Impact of HIPAA, PCI, PIIG and Other New Government and Industry Guidelines on Email Security Policies

whitepaper Read this paper to learn about the impact of relatively new data protection regulations and standards such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Personally Identifiable...

Tags: pki

[07 Apr 2008]

Technology Predictions 2008: Deloitte

whitepaper Technology trends for 2008 include innovation blowback, green technology issues and privacy protection of Personally Identifiable Information. Deloitte's Technology Predictions 2008 report examines emerging developments and how they will shape the...

Tags: infrastructure management

[13 Mar 2008]

Privacy screw tightened at Microsoft, Yahoo!

News is vowing to remove portions of IP addresses and personally identifiable cookie IDs within 13 months except when users want the data retained for longer or when the company is required to retain it for law enforcement or legal processes, said a...

Tags: data, search, yahoo, microsoft

[23 Jul 2007]

Identity Governance Framework

whitepaper Identity Governance Framework (IGF) will help enterprises easily determine and control how identity related information, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), access entitlements, attributes, etc.are used, stored, and propagated...

Tags: security standards, personally identifiable, enterprises, governance

[17 Dec 2006]

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Database Vault - Protecting the Database and Applications

whitepaper These features help to address regulatory compliance, insider threats, and protection of personally identifiable information. Oracle Database Vault enables to restrict the DBA and other privileged users from accessing application data; protect the...

Tags: database management, oracle database, unauthorized, database applications

[17 Dec 2006]

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Database Vault - Controlling Access to Applications

whitepaper These features help to address regulatory compliance, insider threats, and protection of personally identifiable information. Oracle Database Vault enables to restrict the DBA and other privileged users from accessing application data; protect the...

Tags: database management, oracle database, vault, address

[17 Dec 2006]

Addressing Privacy Issues During Disaster Recovery

whitepaper Businesses possess a staggering amount of private and Personally Identifiable Information (PII), not only about their customers, but also about their employees. Under which circumstances and representations was this information collected?

Tags: disaster recovery, circumstances, personally identifiable, type

[09 Aug 2006]

Fundamental Practices for Security of Information Assets in the Small to Medium Sized Organization

whitepaper Networked information assets are defined by ITTS at Stanford University (Stanford 2003) as academic and intellectual capital, proprietary business management and financial data, personally identifiable health information, and personally...

Tags: security management, practices, identified, networked

[09 Jun 2006]

Google wi-fi rollout begins

News Google will not tie content delivered to systems to any personally identifiable information but may offer data, such as locations of petrol stations, restaurant reviews and movie times and locations, based on what neighbourhood the user is in, he...

Tags: wi-fi, google

[08 Jun 2006]

Smith: The Carrot-and-Stick Approach - Federal Agencies Should Reward Companies That Ensure the Privacy of Consumer Data

whitepaper Several of those bills seek to restrict or regulate the use of personally identifiable information such as credit card numbers, customer records and Social Security numbers. As evidenced by the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) record-setting fine...

Tags: security management, numbers, bills, social security

[26 May 2006]

Should you kick the Microsoft Word habit?

whitepaper Documents generated by Word also have the bad habit of hiding extra information (such as deleted text and personally identifiable details about the file author) in their headers. This chapter from Just Say No to Microsoft looks at our reliance on...

Tags: word, processing, chapter, word processing

[19 May 2006]

Offshoring an "unstoppable force", says NHS IT chief

News We have a lot of that being done offshore [but] we are not processing personally identifiable data offshore. Offshoring is an "unstoppable force" according to Richard Granger, the director general for NHS IT.

Tags: nhs it

[10 May 2006]

RFID security raises privacy issues

News The CDT said that while many applications of RFID may raise no real privacy concerns, "when the data collected from RFID tags is linked to personally identifiable information, privacy issues can arise".

Tags: rfid

[08 May 2006]

Spyware: An Attack on Privacy in the End User Computing Environment

whitepaper This paper is about the collection and use of personally identifiable information by commercial organizations that can compromise individual privacy using software known generically as "spyware. Spyware is a type of computer program that is capable...

Tags: activities, privacy, spyware, threats

[14 Apr 2006]

DoubleClick Response to Spyware Discussion Paper

whitepaper Confusion around how and where Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is used by bad actors is harmful to the legitimate and consent based use of PII or technologies which could be potentially be seen as utilizing PII, even when that use is...

Tags: consumer, spyware, personally identifiable, pii

[14 Apr 2006]

Google fights US gov't request for search data

News acknowledged on Thursday that it complied with the Justice Department's request but said no personally identifiable information was handed over. We were able to share aggregated query data [not search results] that did not include any personally...

Tags: search data, search, bush, google

[20 Jan 2006]

Anti-spyware group agrees detection guidelines

News Programs that install themselves without a user's permission or knowledge, via a security exploit, are also deemed high-risk, as are programs that intercept email or instant messages without user consent, transmit personally identifiable data, or...

Tags: anti-spyware coalition, anti-spyware, adware, spyware

[13 Jan 2006]

'How to detect spyware' guidelines aired

News Other high-risk programs are those that intercept email or instant messages without user consent, transmit personally identifiable data, or change security settings. The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) offered up standard guidelines on Thursday for...

Tags: spyware

[28 Oct 2005]

Compliance With the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act's Safeguards Rules

whitepaper Since the passage of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in 1974, educational institutions have been legally required to ensure the privacy of their students' personally identifiable information.

Tags: privacy, students, institutions, act

[27 Sep 2005]

Leading Mortgage Services Provider Secures Non-Public Personal Information With Vormetric's CoreGuard System

whitepaper Ocwen Financial Corporation selected Vormetric's CoreGuard Data Security System for the protection and encryption of non-public, personally identifiable financial information. A variety of new regulations are causing organizations to examine the...

Tags: protection, vormetric, databases, act

[15 Sep 2005]

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