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Broadly Defined, Printing Is One Hellacious Cyber Risk

Legal expert and printing industry pundit Kevin Keane contributes this article about the risks printing companies face as they handle an increasing volume of internal and external data. But he doesn’t stop there. He provides our members with specific steps that owners and managers must take to mitigate data breach risks.

Monday, June 02, 2014

Printing firm " ...did not mean to print SSNs on the postcards," Molina privacy official Timothy C. Zevnik explained in a notification letter dated 2 May 2014. This could have been your company…

The lingua franca of information security is laced with arcane terms understood by the cyber cognoscenti, but as opaque as mud to the common lads and lasses.

Ironic then, that the simple word "printing" can mean many different things; and yet all its meanings are riven by Cyber-IN-Security.


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About Kevin Keane

Kevin Keane is a cybersecurity attorney whose initial career was spent in senior management roles in the printing industry.  He writes and speaks often now about cyberrisk in all industries and is currently Vice President / General Counsel / Equity Partner in Beryllium, LLC, dba Beryllium InfoSec Collaborative in Minneapolis.  You can reach him at [email protected]

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