2009 Data Loss: Overlooking Important Points When Viewing Statistics

The end of a year is a time to look back and reflect on positive and negative incidents that have occurred in the past 12 months. Some people make a more general, qualitative assessment about performance, and others look at hard numbers and come to conclusions that way. Although there are many different ways of analyzing performance, it is important to ask yourself if the paradigm you’re using to assess improvement in any situation is hiding another truth. This applies all business matters, but right now we’ll focus on business IT. To demonstrate this concept, we’ll use the following example.

 The Rise of Cloud Computing

The rise of cloud computing is shifting the center of gravity. It is changing the nature of competition within the computer industry. Technological developments have up until this moment pushed computing power away from central hubs: first from mainframes to minicomputers, and then to PCs and laptops. Now a combination of cheaper and more powerful processors, and ever faster and more ever present networks, is pushing power back to the center in some respects, and even further away in others. The cloud's data centers are, in effect, outsized public mainframes that users do not have to keep up, or update.[1]   

 Final Version of MGL 93H 201 CMR 17.00 Filed

OCABR (Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation) on October 29th, 2009 filed the "Final" version of the "Standards for the Protection of Personal Information" also known as MGL 93H 201 CMR 17.00 with the Secretary of State's office.  The first issue was in September of 2008, and after more than a year of amendments to the original regulations this is the final step before the regulation takes effect on March 1, 2010.  The final regulations include some further clarifications than the amendment that was released in August of this year, but are substantially similar.

What are the differences between this new version (August 17, 2009) of 201 CMR 17.00 and the version issued in February of 2009?

There are some important differences in the two versions:

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