Privacy and Security Part II: It's Personal

Abstract

This article is the second in a series of three that explores the issues of privacy versus security. The first article, “Privacy and Security Part I: Privacy and Security in the Corporate World” covered the corporate side. This second in the series will explore personal privacy versus security, and the third installment will review the overlap from both sides corporate versus personal privacy: Who really owns your data?

Notes

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Notes on contributors

Al Marcella

Albert J. Marcella Jr., Ph.D., CISA, CISM, is president of Business Automation Consultants, LLC. Dr. Marcella, is an internationally recognized public speaker, researcher, and workshop and seminar leader with over 35 years of experience in IT audit, security, and assessing internal controls. Dr. Marcella, has authored numerous articles and 29 books on various IT, audit, and security related subjects.

Carol Stucki

Carol Stucki, CISA, PMP, is a Project Manager with over 25 years of experience in operational and IT roles including providing internal systems consulting, portfolio management, and auditing services for companies both in the Unites States and abroad. Carol has worked for GTE (now Verizon), Arthur Andersen, Perot Systems, Los Alamos National Labs on DOE, DOD, HSD contracts, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Capgemini, and HealthNow.