FTC Planning to Conduct a Wide-Range Study on Identity Theft Victims

As highlighted in this recent article (called “FTC recruiting identity theft victims”), FTC is planning to conduct a wide-range study on identity theft victims:

“In an effort to buttress its enforcement and better understand the scourge that is identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission said today its plans to conduct a wide-ranging study of victims of the crime.

The FTC is looking for people harmed by the crime and said the survey will examine the remedies available to victims under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act). Among other things, the FACT Act gave consumers the right to place fraud alerts on their credit files if they are, or suspect they may become, victims of identity theft; block information on their credit reports that resulted from identity theft; and obtain copies of their credit reports free of charge.”

More details are in the article mentioned above, including the URL of the FTC survey site (NOTE: at the moment of writing I tried to connect to this site but it does not work …).

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2008 National Survey on Access Governance: Business Risks and Challenges

A new survey on “access governance” has been released by the Ponemon Institute, as anticipated by this Businesswire article:

“According to the 2008 National Survey on Access Governance released on February 5th by the research firm Ponemon Institute, organizations are facing significant business risks because of inconsistent approaches to access management across the enterprise.
This survey of almost 700 experienced IT practitioners show that vast majority believe that employees, temporary employees and independent contractors have too much access to information assets that are not pertinent to their job function, and that access policies are not being regularly checked or enforced by their organization. This report describes the five major challenges identified by the survey respondents to implementing an effective access governance framework:

• User access rights are poorly assigned
• Policies are not regularly checked and enforced
• Organizations are not able to keep pace with changes to users’ roles and they face serious noncompliance and business risk as a result
• Senior management lacks understanding of the importance of access governance
• Collaboration is viewed as critical but is not being achieved”

This survey can be downloaded online, from here.

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