Trying to plot the course for a data security plan in 2025 requires piecing together the maps of various cartographers and decoding each map’s legends and keys. On November 12, the CFPB published a ...

The Internal Revenue Service and its security partners want practitioners, particularly in smaller tax practices, to use a new template to create a data security plan. The Written Information Security ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your company’s employees can support or undermine the foundation of your data security plan. They are the most likely to be targeted and the easiest to leverage into a valuable asset. We are all ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a continued effort to protect taxpayer information and combat the growing threat of identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its Security Summit partners have ...

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 ...