A company that can show all reasonable measures were taken to protect staff from intentional or accidental offence stands on a far firmer legal footing, said Warner. Hockey cited examples such as police forces or companies handling claims or...
There are steps companies and employees can take to protect themselves, but first they must understand the risks, the responsibilities and the benefits. Staff need to be advised of the measures they can take to create a secure behavioural...
Cox also highlighted the importance of establishing a good security foundation before implementing "higher level" security measures such as identity management. Strong data-breach laws would also ensure companies took data security more seriously...
Throughout the Gartner Symposium, Heiser suggested many security woes - not just those involving portable devices - can be solved through access-control measures. Heiser recommended security officers employ mandatory access control (MAC) measures...
Around a third of the data breaches in the sample were due to lost or stolen laptops or other devices such as USB flash drives. Dunkelberger said there should be 'safe harbours' such as there are in the Californian data breaches law, where...
The Data Sharing Review found that measures were needed to restore public trust in the way Whitehall handles information in the wake of high profiled data breaches, such as HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million people's personal data and the...