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The EQC Privacy Breach – Where’s the Risk Management?

By Jim, on 26 March, 2013

On Friday, Ian Simpson the Chief Executive of the Earthquake Commission (EQC) held a media conference and announced that a staff member had accidentally sent an email with an attachment containing a spreadsheet with the details of 9,700 Christchurch residents and their claims, to a recipient outside of the organisation.

Privacy Breaches – Carrot or Stick?

By Axenic Team, on 20 February, 2013

Interesting article in the NY Times here

It discusses the loss of an unencrypted laptop by a NASA employee that contained the confidential details of 10,000 employees including names, birth dates, social security numbers and, in some cases, personal information from background checks.

Whitelists & Blackhats

By Axenic Team, on 13 February, 2013

The news yesterday and Monday was all about Telecom’s Xtra service and Yahoo. The media were outraged on behalf of everyone and a number of commentators took to the airwaves to tell us just how bad this was.

So What…?

By Axenic Team, on 8 February, 2013

We do a lot of risk assessments… a lot…. As a result, we spend a lot of time talking about risk, how it is measured and most importantly what it delivers for an organisation. We also do a lot of reading.

A Tale Of Two Incidents

By Axenic Team, on 20 December, 2012

Unless you spent the latter half of this year in a cave, you will be aware that both ACC and the Ministry of Social Development suffered security and privacy incidents.

There is only one way to eliminate risk

By Jim, on 26 October, 2010

One common misconception of risk management that I have come up against time and time again is that by managing a risk it has been eliminated and can be closed and removed from the risk register. This is simply not the case as risks can evolve and change over time for any number of reasons.

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