Roger's Information Security

JULY 8, 2016

I received the following voicemail on my home number today. “The reason of this call is to inform you that the IRS is filing lawsuit against you to get more information about this case file. Please call immediately on our department number 347-637-6615. I repeat 347-637-6615. Thank you.” While tax season is the high season for this particular scam, “The IRS is filling a lawsuit against you” strikes fear into the heart of the recipient any time of year.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 4, 2016

On June 28, 2016, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) released its Annual Report for 2015 -2016 (the “Report”). According to the Report, the ICO has dealt with an increase in the number of data protection concerns, handling 16,388 complaints in total. Particularly noteworthy is the £130,000 fine imposed on Pharmacy 2U for breach of the fair processing requirements under the UK Data Protection Act 1998.

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JKevinParker

JULY 5, 2016

I was one of four experts interviewed by RecordLion for a virtual roundtable of Information Governance experts. Here's a sample: Question: "How do you define information governance?". My answer: First, it is important to start with Information Strategy followed by Information Architecture. Strategy asks “What are we trying to accomplish, and what are the critical success factors?

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CGI

JULY 6, 2016

A framework for secure, mission-ready cloud solutions. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Wed, 07/06/2016 - 08:00. In the past year or so, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has made a number of changes to make it easier for DoD agencies to buy cloud services, including accepting some additional risk for less mission-critical data. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the DoD Chief Information Officer also have published a cloud security requirements guide (SRG) to provide more standardized defi

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 7, 2016

On July 6, 2016, the European Parliament adopted the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (the “NIS Directive”), which will come into force in August 2016. EU Member States will have 21 months to transpose the NIS Directive into their national laws. The NIS Directive is part of the European Commission’s cybersecurity strategy for the European Union, and is designed to increase cooperation between EU Member States on cybersecurity issues.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 6, 2016

On June 30, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that it had settled potential HIPAA Security Rule violations with Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (“CHCS”). This is the first enforcement action OCR has taken against a business associate since the HIPAA Omnibus Rule was enacted in 2013.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 6, 2016

On July 5, 2016, the European Commission announced the launch of a new public-private partnership (the “Partnership”) on cybersecurity, as part of its Digital Single Market and EU Cybersecurity strategies. In this context, the European Commission released several documents, including a Commission Decision establishing a contractual arrangement of the new Partnership for cybersecurity industrial research, and a Staff Working Document on the preparation activities for the Partnership.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 8, 2016

On July 8, 2016, EU representatives on the Article 31 Committee approved the final version of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”) to permit transatlantic transfers of personal data from the EU to the U.S. As we previously reported , the Privacy Shield is a successor framework to the Safe Harbor, which was invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union in October 2015.

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