Whatever happened to security policies?
Matt Rodgers, Computerworld Australia
Is it just me, or does it seem like the most basic security policies appear to be breaking down in enterprises everywhere?
A few weeks ago one of our very own employees picked up a briefcase that an HSBC employee left on a Sydney train and found inside the banking details, names and home addresses, as well as other personal financial information of over 100 HSBC Australia customers.
Similarly, a recent audit found that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service had over 400 laptops lost or stolen in the past three years. As a former Yank who's familiar with the harsh rectitude of the IRS, I find this particularly disconcerting. My gut feeling is that if an agency like the IRS, which wrote the book on how to conduct painful audits, can't get its security policies right, who can?
Read the full article here.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the most basic security policies appear to be breaking down in enterprises everywhere?
A few weeks ago one of our very own employees picked up a briefcase that an HSBC employee left on a Sydney train and found inside the banking details, names and home addresses, as well as other personal financial information of over 100 HSBC Australia customers.
Similarly, a recent audit found that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service had over 400 laptops lost or stolen in the past three years. As a former Yank who's familiar with the harsh rectitude of the IRS, I find this particularly disconcerting. My gut feeling is that if an agency like the IRS, which wrote the book on how to conduct painful audits, can't get its security policies right, who can?
Read the full article here.
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