I have been somewhat surprised this week not to see any discussion regarding
the UK Financial Services Authorities fine on the Norwich Union building
society of nearly 1 million pounds for the loss of a laptop during the
burglary of a member of staffs house.
With Chris Pounder and the ICO's office both appearing on the TV and in
other media I had expected some discussion regarding Principle 7 and the
potentials for avoiding such heavy fines by embedding effective access
control and encryption requirements in robust security policies for all of
those small mobile devices. Perhaps there is little perceived need to
publicly increase appropriate knowledge of those issues as questions
inevitably arise anyway.
Home working anyone?
Difficulties in justifying expenditure on improving old or non-existent
security software?
Whilst the ICO is frequently less than lukewarm in supporting DP measures
which involve business costs, this type of fine should be most helpful in
reducing competing expenditures into small bucks thereby assuring
appropriate business protections can exist.
Searching the Web for the UK will no doubt reveal many links to appropriate
articles for those in the position of having to conduct a state of the art
risk analysis following this business accident.
Ian W
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