To kick off the first week of the New Year, Kroll Fraud Solutions encourages businesses and consumers alike to make data security a New Year’s resolution.
To help you do so, each day during the first week of 2010 we will post a data security tip for businesses.
Check back on Monday, January 4 for the first in our series.
Say farewell to the old year with a look at four of the top 2009 events that our experts believe have changed the face of data security for businesses going forward…
The year 2009 closes with an almost audible gasp of air, as we take in and hold our collective breathes for the coming enforcement of HITECH on February 18, 2010 — one year post enactment of the Act itself. Among the measures to be taken, these two are of particular note:
• The requirement for Health and Human Services (HHS) to begin conducting mandatory audits, and
• Civil monetary penalties and settlements flowing to HHS/OCR (Office of Civil Rights) for enforcement.
One of the first steps that should be taken by any organization facing a data loss – whether that company has an incident response plan in place or not – is to get an explicit sense of scope. What happened? When? How many records were lost?
Properly determining the scope of a data breach can save you a lot of time and even more money when compared to the alternative. Consider these two case study briefs, taken straight from Kroll experiences:
Welcome! I am Brian Lapidus, the COO of Kroll’s Fraud Solutions practice group, and it is my pleasure today to launch the Kroll Fraud Solutions Blog: A Dialogue on Data Security, a destination designed to share information; generate thought-provoking content; and stimulate conversations related to data security and identity theft related issues. While I have the honor of kicking off this effort, several expert contributors will lend their thoughts on a regular basis — including many of Kroll’s Certified Fraud Examiners, our Licensed Investigators… and you.
