First international standard on cloud services and personal information protection
The International Standards Organization has released a standard for privacy aimed at cloud computing service providers.
protecting personal information
BYOD: is personal information visible over corporate networks?
Employers are increasingly drafting and implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies for their employees. And they should be, since employees are increasingly using their personal digital devices—phones, tablets, laptops—to perform work, both in and out of the workplace. But employees may have trouble trusting their employers to stay out of their personal information...
Most organizations still don’t encrypt data when it leaves the office
I recently read a news release by the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner that indicated that there are still high incidences of laptops containing personal information being stolen—without having security measures such as encryption put in place. The commissioner was left scratching his head.
