: Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information: Assessing and Mitigating the Threat of Identity Fraud

This seminar will address the most significant issues in identity fraud faced by today’s business and records management professionals. Charged with ensuring the security of your organization’s confidential, personally identifiable information what risks threaten the integrity and security of these data and how will you mitigate these risks using the available technology?

 

The attendee will be provided with valuable resources, and insights into protecting on-line identities, ensuring greater privacy of protected information, avoiding online fraud schemes, protecting sensitive personal, employee, student, and customer information, plugging information leaks, assessing security exposures and even coping with identity fraud after an impostor strikes. Also addressed will be what role security and the security function plays in providing a controlled work environment for protecting and safeguarding the confidentiality of institutional data.

This seminar is intended for internal/external auditors, Chief Technology Officers, General Counsels, Chief Information Officers, Chief Security Officers, Controllers, Chief Privacy Officers, acting Privacy Officers, managers responsible for directing internal and external audit professionals, Human Relations professionals charged with implementing innovative EAP programs, and any individual who wishes to learn how to take a proactive stance in protecting their individual privacy

There is no prerequisite for this seminar.

After completing this seminar, participants will be able to answer the following questions:

 

1.     What Is Identity Fraud?

2.     Why Should I Care?

3.     How Can Someone Steal My Identity?

4.     Am I an ID Thief's Next Victim?

5.     What If It Happens To Me?

 

And be able to:

 

1.     Identify Low-Tech Methods of Identity Fraud Protection

2.     Investigate the Feasibility of Implementing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Or "Pets"

3.     Implement 10 Steps to Plug Personal Information Leaks

4.    Recognize that Privacy Theft is an Implication of ID Fraud

·       Time Involved in Being a Victim

·       Uses of Victim Information

Practical and Emotional Costs of Identity Fraud

Monetary Costs of Identity Fraud

What Are Ways Thieves Get Personal Information

Electronic Profiling: Digitally Tracking Your Life

Why Should I care? – Because it’s the Law!!

·       FERPA

·       HIPAA

·       GLB

·       PCI

·       FISM

·       Breach Laws

·       Red Flag Laws

·       Higher Education Opportunity Act

Social Engineering and Identity Fraud

Identity Verification Technologies

Privacy Enhancing Tools

Privacy Impact Assessment

Signs of Identity Fraud: Are You A Victim?

Steps to Protecting Your Identity

Identity Fraud Cases - Research conducted by Dr. Marcella