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Coping with A Major Security Breach? Whats your Contingency Plan?

Legal pressures, not to mention your moral obligation to assist unwitting victims, means that you should never delay when disclosing IT security incidents.

In November 2005 a laptop belonging to an employee of the Boeing Corporation was stolen. Among the information on the machine was personal financial data about 161,000 current and former employees of the aerospace giant.

None of the confidential information was encrypted, and therefore the thieves would have been able to read and exploit it easily. Yet this was just one of the two serious failings in Boeing?s IT security procedures that this episode highlighted. The second was not to have immediately owned up to the incident. The company still refuses to reveal the precise timings but has admitted that it was ?several days? after the theft before the 161,000 ?victims? were officially informed that their personal details were now in the public domain, potentially ready to be used by criminals involved in identity theft. HNS - Coping with A Major Security Breach? What?s your Contingency Plan?

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