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.

We believe that we can all agree that the growth of dependency on the internet by both private and commercial interests and activities is without question.  The added concern of how the use of the internet  is affecting privacy is also a fact that is not only agreed upon but also is a part of internet usage that many organizations watch very carefully when it comes to online security and privacy issues.  When coupled with growing regulatory mandates and economic penalties for non-compliance to those regulations, it is easy to see how the potential occurence of  security and privacy breaches can have a great impact on that organization’s ongoing business and its business continuity plans.

With interests in social networking activity on the internet growing for both organizations and individuals, we believe a recent article about how we are losing  our privacy as individuals on the internet as written by Gregory M. Lamb, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, is well worth reading.  We think this article has a lot to say about an individual’s privacy on the internet that speaks to and may be a precursor to similar concerns facing an organization regarding its privacy issues on the internet.

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