{"id":37211,"date":"2013-08-23T07:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37211"},"modified":"2013-08-23T07:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:34:04","slug":"the-va-and-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37211","title":{"rendered":"The VA and data breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enrique sends us a link to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/fcw.com\/Articles\/2013\/08\/21\/veterans-affairs-data-breaches.aspx?Page=1\">FCW<\/a> that discusses how the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs deals with the breach of your Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Apparently, it happens more often than we realize;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each week, at least some of the Data Breach Core Team&#8217;s 30 members gather to pore over suspected data breaches reported through the agency&#8217;s Privacy Security Event Tracking System, determining whether an incident is an actual breach. The DBCT assigns a risk categorization \u2013 low, medium or high \u2013 to each potential breach and determines whether VA should offer credit monitoring to veterans in each case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, if your PII is lost somehow on a Friday, sometime during the next week, this panel will meet and decide whether they should protect you or not. The first data breach that was significant enough for the VA to tell us about, well, they didn&#8217;t even tell the Secretary until three weeks after it happened. SO the VA isn&#8217;t really johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to protecting your information.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said before that I subscribe to Lifelock (it&#8217;s about $100\/year) because so many government agencies are playing fast and loose with my PII, I can&#8217;t stop them from losing it, so, just like life insurance, I have Lifelock so I can sleep at night knowing that if Paul Wickre decides to publish my social security number again, it won&#8217;t do anyone any good to have it.<\/p>\n<p>And that way, I don&#8217;t have to wait for some panel of 30 bureaucrats to decide whether my PII is worth protecting  through their good graces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrique sends us a link to an article in FCW that discusses how the Department of &hellip; <a title=\"The VA and data breaches\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37211\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The VA and data breaches<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}