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A dilemma for Personal Data protection in the digital age
Security breaches involving personal data and the inadequacy of the controls protecting this data in many organisations was brought to the top of the news agenda in late 2007, making it something of a watershed year regarding the security of electronically stored personal information at companies. Many businesses are now in the process of doing the work needed to answer the question: “are we next?” – IT security controls are being examined! There has been …
Some skin in the game
The desire and need to process and communicate information has come to be a dominant factor in our personal and business lives. Automation has meant that we are increasingly reliant on the machines that store, process and communicate this information. Our culture is now that we must trust increasingly sophisticated and geographically obscure information systems and networks: our information assets are communicated, stored and processed within these invisible, complex webs. As information security perimeters blur, …





