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Beyond Print: Public-Private Partnerships
08/27/2012 - See examples of the crime bulletins used by the City Center District, a business improvement district that helps protect a 233-block area of downtown Philadelphia.
Beyond Print: Hiring \ Employment Issues
08/27/2012 - A teacher who was fired from a religious school after she became pregnant out of wedlock may pursue her sex discrimination claim. The court ruled that a jury could reasonably find that the school actually fired the teacher because she was pregnant, rather than because she conceived out of wedlock.
Beyond Print: Hiring \ Employment Issues
08/27/2012 - A California court has ruled that a bank may not sue a former employee for defamation after the employee posted negative information about the bank on an Internet forum. The court ruled that the postings were “speech in furtherance of the public interest,” because they concerned the business practices of the financial services sector.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
08/27/2012 - An employee granted unrestricted access to his employer’s computer network cannot be found guilty under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) if he later steals information from his employer, another district court has ruled. The decision agrees with the Ninth Circuit but conflicts with the Fifth, Seventh, and Eleventh circuits.
Beyond Print: Research & Studies
08/27/2012 - See an example of how a security department can come up with reliable and consistent metrics for security. The first step was to develop categories into which incidents could be recorded.
Beyond Print: IT Security
08/27/2012 - An appeals court has ruled that an employee does not need to be aware of healthcare privacy laws to be guilty of violating them. The court determined that plaintiffs only needed to know that they obtained the identifiable health information of other people to be guilty of violating HIPAA.
Beyond Print: Workplace Violence
08/27/2012 - An employee of the University of Kentucky was wrongfully fired for keeping a firearm in his car on school property, according to the state’s high court. The court ruled that the state’s concealed carry law prohibited the university from firing the employee.
Beyond Print: Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management
08/27/2012 - A European project aims to model the best responses to disasters. Part of the project is a tool to help first responders and private industry make the best choices in a crisis.
Beyond Print: Terrorism
08/27/2012 - A survey reveals that a large percentage of the public does not understand what constitutes suspicious activity in the context of terrorism. Read more about this and other problems with suspicious activity reporting.
Beyond Print: Web-based Threats
07/30/2012 - A bill (S.B. 1349) currently pending in the California Senate would prohibit employers and educational institutions from requiring or requesting that employees or students give to those authorities the passwords to their social media sites or provide access to their accounts.
Beyond Print: Proprietary Information Protection
07/30/2012 - A recent court ruling found that a former Goldman Sachs employee who stole code for a proprietary internal trading system did not violate the Economic Espionage Act because the code was for an internal system.
Beyond Print: IT Security
07/30/2012 - A new study finds that older computer users tend to choose stronger passwords than younger users.
Beyond Print: Web-based Threats
07/30/2012 - Industries such as energy and utilities, which make up America’s critical infrastructure, may be weaker than other industries when it comes to managing risk and guarding against cyberattacks, according to this report.
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