Data Privacy News

Transportation safety agency tees up regulations for driverless cars

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking at how to regulate self-driving cars.

New ID policy looks to leverage government credentials

An updated credentialing policy from the White House aims to make PIV cards interoperable across agencies and tap federal identifiers like Social Security numbers to secure digital transactions.

FCW Insider: May 24

Top stories, quick hits and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.

Employees, research drive CX innovations at Veterans Affairs

The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to improve customer experience by changing its culture and tapping its own workforce for innovative ideas.

OPM: Job cuts could be part of the 'executive playbook'

The Office of Personnel Management is telling agencies that, as they rely more heavily on new technologies and retrain their employees, cutting the workforce may be in order.

Less is more: Leveraging Cloud Email Platforms Without Risk

ENISA: Software vulnerability prevention initiatives

The European Network and Information Security Agency, ENISA, has compiled a list of existing initiatives focused on finding and preventing software vulnerabilities.

FFIEC Final Authentication Guidance

The Final FFIEC Guidance has been issued and its main intent is to reinforce the 2005 Guidance's risk management framework and update the Agencies' expectations regarding customer authentication, layered security, or other controls in the increasingly hostile online environment.

Medicare Fraud Conspiracy Included HIPAA Violations

Three Sentenced to Prison for Scheme That Targeted SeniorsThree individuals have been sentenced to serve time in federal prison after pleading guilty to participating in a $1 million Medicare fraud conspiracy that included criminal HIPAA violations.

Multilayered Security Gets Personal

First Data's Tim Horton on Why Encryption Is Not Enough to Secure PIIWhen large-scale data breaches started to proliferate more than a decade ago, security leaders called for end-to-end data encryption. But that approach no longer suffices, says First Data's[…]