Tag Archives: 2011

The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation has issued its first annual report on data breaches. Since Massachusetts has one of the more strict state laws on data security and breach reporting, this report bears close attention for trends across the nation. Some of the highlights in this summary, which covers 2007-2011:

• Through September 30, 2011, the largest share of breaches was not in the financial sector,…

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We are six months into 2011, and it seems destined to be “The Year of the Breach.”  In just the past few months, major American (and multi-national) corporations and institutions have reported that they have been the victims of some kind of security breach:

• Epsilon: breach of customer email addresses;
• RSA: compromise of security tokens (possibly impacting Lockheed Martin);…

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I was on a panel today with Stuart N. Brotman, former Special Assistant to Communications and the President’s principal communications policy adviser and Chief of Staff at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.  My slides are here. More