We are now in the full swing of the silly season but that’s no reason to let your guard down and take chances with your business’s data security. Heading into the holidays is an opportunity for you to reflect on your office space and how you would like to leave it over this end of […]
OAIC Notifiable Data Breach scheme commences
The Australian Government is continually responding to changing technologies and their effects on data management. There are also increasing community expectations on organisations to secure customers’ personal data, so it is used only by authorised persons. Data management happens within an evolving landscape of regulations. Keeping abreast of these can be time consuming and expensive. Not […]
Managing documents – a joint effort
To run a business successfully, it’s important to periodically ask questions, such as: “For which tasks do we lack the necessary expertise?” “Which tasks could we do, but likely with low efficiency, low quality, high cost and high stress?” “Which tasks do we do just rarely enough for us to be at risk of forgetting […]
Company Data Security
We now rely on and use data in every part of our lives. Text, sound, images and video about each of us is stored by every service we have used, every workplace we have worked at and, increasingly, homes we live in or visit. Globally, the total volume of data is doubling roughly every two […]
Aged care facility
As our population ages, more and more of us will live in aged care facilities at some stage in our lives – nursing homes, hostels and the like. Many of us already have family members who are residents of such establishments. As facility users, we expect appropriate levels of information about residents’ health and well […]
The Importance of Secure Disposal of Personal Documents
As individuals we collect a large number of documents – both hard copy and electronic. These can potentially be misused. They include bank statements; credit card information; tax details; superannuation and pension information; pay slips; legal documents; car registration rates and utilities bills etc. Some of these need to be kept for a certain amount of […]