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Information Governance: The Dirty Harry Strategy

After attending yesterday’s Eurim roundtable meeting on Information Governance, I think it will take a catastrophic data leakage disaster to shake the UK out of data governance complacency. 

So far, despite the regular reports of serious data leakage, especially from public sector care, the UK citizenry appears to have been lucky not to pay the possible consequences of widespread identity contamination. But our luck will run out someday. So as each new incident is reported over the coming months, as Dirty Harry once said: You‘ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’

In my view, though, it would be better if those responsible for safeguarding information started taking timely preventative action, instead of relying on good fortune.

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  • Philip Virgo

    We have already had the disasters – some published, others not. People have indeed died as a result of leaks from witness protection programmes or medical records. Multi-million pound business have been based on routines for organising such leaks – including, for example, break-ins to computer forensics labs or data centres to steal the hard drives.

    The first issue is whether there is the WILL to address the “wetware” issues – and that means organising political (not just professional/technical) activity.

    The second is whether there is sufficient professional/technical consensus on what should be done to move towards holistic systems whcih embed “security by default”, removing the temptation to bypass clunky, retrofitted, add-on processes – the “e-immodium” in myu most recent blog posting.