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Data Privacy - The Internal Threat

When:         Wednesday March 5th, 2008

Time:          8:45 check
                    9:00 - 12:00 meeting

Where:       American Family Insurance
                    Training Center A2152
                    6000 American Parkway
                    Madison WI 53783

Speaker:    Steve Johnston

Objective:

Learn strategies that can be deployed in the testing environment to support compliance initiatives.

Description:        

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in their testing environments is often overlooked. Taking a proactive strategy to combat this internal threat will remove this vulnerability within your enterprise. Join us for a presentation on combating the internal threat to your application databases and learn how to protect your organization.

I. Introduction

II. About Protecting Privacy

a. Publicity
b. Laws
c. Current protections
d. Where is the problem?

III. What’s at Stake

a. Fines and penalties
b. Loss of customer loyalty
c. Loss of revenue
d. Share price erosion
e. Negative publicity
f. “Brand equity” damage
g. Damage to company reputation
h. Increased operations costs

IV. Cost of a Data Breach

V. Common Legislative Themes

a. USA: HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, California Statutes
b. European Union: Personal Data Protection Directive 1998
c. Australia: Privacy Amendment Act of 2000
d. Canada: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
e. PCI Data Security Standard

VI. What is done today?

a. Production “Lockdown”
b. Unique challenges in Development and Test

VII. The Easiest Way to Expose Private Data

VIII. Analysts Thoughts

IX. Data Privacy in Application Testing

X. Data Privacy Methodology

XI. Case Studies

 


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