Net Privacy: A Guide to Developing & Implementing an Ironclad Ebusiness Privacy Plan

"Net Privacy" by Michael Erbschloe and John Vacca provides an excellent reference for understanding the privacy issues associated with Internet use. The book provides a comprehensive description on how sensitive corporate data is handled to in order protect consumer privacy and corporate liability. The book contains informative tips and techniques for securing privileged information from a business standpoint, and provides an understanding to the Internet user and e-business customer of the security precautions implemented today in the ever-changing e-business marketplace. The book goes on to provide a framework for the development and implementation of a corporate privacy plan. For an IT professional this process can be extremely useful in determining if you have each of the critical areas covered in order to protect corporate interests in an e-business environment. The book also provides great recommendations for corporate privacy protection in terms of mobile computing and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) environments.

Net Privacy is an essential guide to developing and implementing an ebusiness privacy plan. This book will show you how to conduct and audit to determine your organization's privacy requirements, develop plans, policies and measures to ensure that the privacy plan is successful and properly implemented, maintained and managed.

John Vacca and Michale Erbschloe are the current experts on net privacy. Follow this guideline to implement essential network privacy and protection on your corporate networks.

Michael Erbschloe and John Vacca A Guide to Developing & Implementing an Ironclad ebusiness Privacy Plan McGraw-Hill 2001This book is an essential reading for any company looking to ensure corporate privacy online. The authors, Erbschloe and Vacca, do an excellent job of providing a step-by-step guide to safeguarding customers' personal information and company secrets through the development of an enterprise privacy plan.Erbschloe and Vacca, two of today's security thought leaders distinguish between privacy and security and the importance of understanding the differences at all levels of the organization.Chapters two and three discuss privacy issues and sight specific cases that have occurred over the years. The chapters go on to point out how technology continues to change but the protection laws governing technology use are vague and difficult to interpret. The authors recommend seeking "on going legal counsel" for your business as the use of ebusiness continues to grow with an estimated 165 million users of the Internet in the U.S. in 2003. Chapters 4 through 8 break down the steps necessary for developing and implementing enterprise privacy plan and incorporated these steps into four major phases.Phase One: Organizing and research Phase Two: Conducting privacy -needs audit Phase Three: Developing polices and plans Phase Four: Implementing the planThe authors do point out that the major challenge to any organization trying to implement an enterprise privacy plan is --working through the process of consensus building among departments and managers in the enterprise.Moving on to the rest of the book, the chapters deal with managing, protecting, and measuring the success of your enterprise privacy plan. Checklists throughout these chapters list key areas and specific tasks that should not be overlooked. Long-term management challenges fall into modifying and evolving the enterprise privacy plan as privacy laws and policies change and as information technology solutions evolve.All told, I think the book provides a great set of clear guidelines for ensuring a successful privacy plan; it's implementation and monitoring. Get your privacy planning efforts moving ahead by following this step-by-step format.

This book helped get our privacy planning efforts moving. We bought several copies and used them throughout the company to get people off dead center and moving ahead on privacy planning.