ID Theft and National Security?

Question

Can we surmise that those who mishandle our identity information, by means of their poor stewardship of our identities, are also responsible for endangering our national security?

Answer 1

You can not only come to that conclusion, but stretch it into a true violation of many data security rules.

1. Don’t place data where it is at risk.

2. Don’t allow data to be located where it cannot be destroyed to prevent loss.

3. Don’t allow complete data to be exposed to a single source.

4. Don’t allow related secure data to be in the proximity of the other pieces.

5. Don’t allow related secure data from different companies to be handled by the same location.

6. Don’t allow secure data to be stored or transmitted to a country outside the purvue of the laws of the US, Canadian, UK or Western EU countries.

7. Don’t allow secure data to be transmitted in an unencrypted network environment.

8. Make all release of secure and private data criminal from the lowest to the highest corporate officers.