Two health care providers this week experienced significant data losses of personal health care information, one is BlueCross, the other is University Medical Center, UMC. Insurer BlueCross BlueShield told thousands of members this week that a thief stole 57 computer hard drives from call center inChattanooga. See an article in internet news here: http://www.internetnews.com/welcomead/
UMC has for more than three months losing personal information of traffic accident victims including social security numbers, birth dates. According to UMC, this has been leaked by someone at University Medical Center. See article in the Las Vegas Sun here: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jan/25/umc-patient-info-leaks-likely-date-back-july/
How to secure sensitive information, data loss prevention, for sensitive data in corporations and other organizations, (ILP,CLP,DLP). It covers personal identifiable information, personal health information, credit card information, PII, PCI, PHI etc, and how to protect it. All opinions are mine, and not of my employer or any other organization. For terms of use, see first posting.
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A video on data loss prevention, rights management usage, RMS, file classification infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2, FCI, and RSA Data Loss Prevention, DLP is now available: Video: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Securing-Sensitive-Information--How-MSIT-uses-ADRMS--RSA-DLP/