While most state that Information and data security on the internet (cybersecurity) is an agreed upon objective, defining how, when and where to achieve that objective remains elusive.  Unfortuntely, this topic is far from being a simple debate.  And, since Federal and State laws are constantly being reviewed, evaluated, and re-stated, it is a very difficult task for an organization or indivual to keep current on the status of those regulatory laws.

It is with this thought in mind that this blog continues to post late breaking news and developements on this topic to our readers.

Click here to read Lora Bentley’s update regarding such data security laws in Massachusetts.  Ms. Bentley is a contributing writer for IT BusinessEdge.

If you are a member of a risk management team at your organization, or perhaps you are leading a business continuity planning group, then you should read this article by Joseph Menn, a staff writer for the Financial Times.

Link-sharing, as used so readily by individuals in social networking on the internet, can create yet another potential threat to privacy and information security concerns for both individuals and organizations.  

Before you recommend the usage of more social networking internet tools to your organization, you should read more articles like this to keep current of the online cybersecurity and privacy risks you may be introducing into your organization.

With so many companies now involved with multi-state, and multi-nation commerce, there exists now more than ever, a need to integrate a legal opinion input to any decisions regarding data protection, privacy and security laws and risk managment policies and strategies within those organizations.  Having an appropriate strategy and privacy policy within your organization will help reduce your risks from not only potential  legal actions against your company but also against ultimately any attack on the business continuity capability of your organzization over time.

Please read this article by Lora Bentley as posted recently on an ITBusinessEdge blog for more information.