Common Information Security Threats
Common information security threats are usually described as attacks. A great deal of information leaves organisations without anybody attacking anything.
An email sent to the wrong recipient, or a reply-all with an attachment. A spreadsheet exported for one purpose and kept on a personal drive. A tool signed up for by a team, holding customer or staff data, unknown to anyone responsible for security. A departing employee whose access was never revoked.
Each of these can amount to unauthorised disclosure, and the obligations that follow are the same as they would be after an intrusion.
The controls are procedural rather than technical. Know what tools hold your data, revoke access properly, and make internal mistakes reportable without punishment, because the ones nobody reports are the expensive ones.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner publishes the breach obligations. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
See Sentrient’s data breach response policy template and privacy training course.
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