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The wheels of Identity Theft go round and round...

After four years of corporations having to scramble to create audit-worthy business processes and information technology systems, the regulatory compliance tide may be shifting.

The major catastrophic events in the past couple of years has initiated much thought and dialogue about the tools we can employ during the disaster recovery process. My first thought is to use portable tools that harness the power of the sun.

Why this history lesson? Well, I'm back to worrying about culture again. In fact, changing the culture is still number one on my list of the things that keep me up at night - besides my kids. Over time, I've learned that the big incidents like "Code Red" outbreaks, blackouts, and other front page news, actually present opportunities to garner enterprise support, build momentum, and show what your team can do.

A pretty cool new technology in body fluid forensics that has the potential to drastically increase the speed and accuracy of the forensic investigatory process worldwide has been recently introduced to the industry.

All of this may appear rather obvious to you. Of course, Michigan's government security would come nowhere close to NSA's. Nevertheless, I just had no idea how big the culture shock would be. In the beginning of my state career, I barked out "change those passwords" and "activate your screensaver" orders, like never before. I honestly thought that all that was needed was a few months, or perhaps at most a year or two, of National Security Agency (NSA) indoctrination into the "proper security etiquette" and everything would be set right.

Two companies have heard security executives' pleas for data that can help them measure how their risk management efforts stack up.

Ask most military public relations specialists and they'll have strong opinions about blogs. In a few cases, however, they will approve of soldiers' blogging about their experiences, so long as the soldier is not giving up any top secret