Choicepoint: lessons learned

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I’m very interested in Data security, and with more and more information being collected daily, it’s going to be more of an issue in the future. Here, the name synonymous with data loss, Choicepoint, covers lessons learned since their big incident. Sounds like they have some good things in place, let’s hope this model is mirrored by others before breaches and not after. And speaking of, be sure to review the this great site at Privacy Rights, “A Chronology of data breaches since the Choicepoint incident”, an ongoing tally of loss of data. So much for not writing down your password…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 10:31 am and is filed under geek and tagged with security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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U.S. gov’t mandates laptop security at fak3r.com says:
July 6, 2006 at 4:05 pm
[...] Finally, after all of the crazy data theft, the Bush Administration is giving federal civilian agencies 45 days to comply with new recommendations for laptop encryption and two-factor authentication. I can’t believe this wasn’t a standard before, but oh well, from now on out this has to be. Next up, private industries, while not under any direct order, it’s going to be something they have to do to give their customers the assurance that they’re doing something about the problem. See Breaches since Choicepoint or my other Choicepoint story for more background on the extent of this issue. [...]

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