Friday’s Food for Thought: Perhaps a “Lock Box” Is The Answer to Cyber Crime?

Welcome to the second installment of the Friday’s Food for Thought on the ITAC blog. With this particular post, we try to take a creative approach — perhaps lend a unique insight — into the cyber security, data breach and identity theft issues that we face everyday. Since there is no secret sauce for dealing with the cyber crime challenges that we face, we had an epiphany…perhaps Al Gore, when he was running for president in the 2000 election, was onto something with his concept of the “lock box.”

Of course, he was speaking more about taking the national budget surplus (wow, remember how we had a budget surplus?!) and putting it into a “lock box” in contrast to George Bush’s plan of giving the money back to tax payers. Do you recall how his “lock box” message was lampooned in the media and by those on the right? And, perhaps it cost him the election.

How does this tie into cybersecurity? This week, we covered how Kaiser Permanente experienced a data breach because a device containing personal information of 15,000 member was stolen out of an employees car. Well, perhaps that device should have been stored in a “lock box,” and not be in someone’s car?

Happy Friday!