The Internal Revenue Service has released a sample data security plan to help tax professionals develop and implement ones of their own. All professional tax preparers are required by law to create ...

Tax and accounting professionals have a new resource for implementing or improving their written information security plan, which is required under federal law. The IRS in a news release Tuesday ...

This Written Information Security Program describes the safeguards implemented by DePauw University to protect confidential data. The goal of the program is to ensure the security of these assets to ...

Tax pros have another tool to use against ID thieves and data breaches: a newly updated Written Information Security Plan from the Internal Revenue Service. The 28-page plan — a.k.a. a WISP — from the ...

With the constant news barrage of Chinese hackers getting into all kinds of business computer systems, I think it might be timely to review how to reduce your chance of that happening to you. As a tax ...

Effective testing and management is designed to validate that changes in security controls do in fact provide the additional benefits they are designed to supply. Periodically, a security control ...

Minnesota has released an updated five-year information security plan with a funding request for nearly $20 million to solidify its cyber defenses. According to the plan, the state of Minnesota’s ...