Privacy Training Is (Still) Vitally Important

Several years ago, I wrote a pamphlet for the International Association of Privacy Professionals titled Six Ways Privacy Awareness Training Will Transform Your Staff . The impacts identified in that paper continue to ring true as evidenced by them being described in the current iteration of ...

What’s New

With 2021 almost over, we have taken a look at our offerings at Privacy Ref and wanted to share what we are working on. Training Training has begun picking up and we have seen an incredible response from participants. Privacy Ref has begun to offer in-person, instructor led training in our Delray...

Your Staff (still) needs to be “privacy aware”

When it is all said and done, no matter what policies you put in place, no matter what procedures you define, no matter what documentation has been written to support your privacy program, it is worthless unless your organization’s staff knows that these items exist. Without the team being “priva...

Privacy Ref and CyberDefenses Bring Privacy and Security Together

There is a saying that you can have security without privacy, but you cannot have privacy without security. While privacy and security are both concerned with the protection of information held by an organization, security provides the means to meet the business requirements identified to meet pr...

Human Errors Will Create Privacy Issues

Regardless of the technology you put in place, the safeguards you have implemented, and the training you have provided, ultimately the success of your privacy program relies on the individuals in your organization. The most recent example of this came at the expense of the US National Women’...