{"id":205,"date":"2015-06-18T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/06\/18\/procurement-trend-required-monitoring-post-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T20:24:00","slug":"procurement-trend-required-monitoring-post-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/procurement-trend-required-monitoring-post-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement Trend: Required Monitoring Post Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal employee data breach this week, triggered an emergency contract of $20+million to provide credit monitoring services.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a common response to offer these services. The Texas Comptroller did the same a few years ago when state employee records were breached\/exposed.<\/p>\n<p>The techies say credit monitoring is only part of the solution when a person&#8217;s data is breached. Other parts to the solution are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watching for\u00a0phishing emails.\n<ul>\n<li>Employees can be coerced into providing information without realizing they are being coerced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>upgrade their personal systems<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0invest in firewall protections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/defense\/2015\/06\/why-credit-monitoring-fails-address-real-threat-facing-hacked-feds\/115090\/\">Government Executive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal employee data breach this week, triggered an emergency contract of $20+million to provide credit monitoring services.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a common response to offer these services. The Texas Comptroller did the same a few years ago when state employee records were breached\/exposed.<\/p>\n<p>The techies say credit monitoring is only part of the solution when a person&#8217;s data is breached. Other parts to the solution are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watching for\u00a0phishing emails.\n<ul>\n<li>Employees can be&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-privacy","category-government-data-breach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}