In today's world not protecting other people's personal information that has been entrusted to you is a shameful act. It should be considered as bad as stealing. NIST.org Presents - "The Non-Encrypted Hall of Shame"

    /24-7PressRelease/ - APPLE VALLEY, MN, June 13, 2006 - In today's world not protecting other people's personal information that has been entrusted to you is a shameful act. It should be considered as bad as stealing. When you don't take prudent steps to guard their personal information you are negligent. Too bad there isn't a law called "negligent theft", until such time we give you:

"The Non-Encrypted Hall of Shame".

If your company loses other people's information on a laptop, backup tape, thumb drive, or other portable device, or any media that has left your company's properly secured physical control, and that data is non-encrypted your are likely to end up here. If your device was lost and the data was properly encrypted you will not be listed here.

John Herron, CISSP
Editor at NIST.org

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