[Dataloss] CTS: Thief Steals Tax Records

[George Toft]

No disrespect taken.

Alternate hypothesis:
  4) The IT guy has it all taken care of - he said so.


George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
My IT Department
www.myITaz.com
623-203-1760

Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.


Adam Shostack wrote:
> So without meaning any disrespect George, I think that there are
> multiple fair interpretations of what's happened.
> 
> 1) Arizona CPAs don't care.
> 2) Arizona CPAs saw your ads and decided that the risk wasn't that
> high.  (No comment on the quality of the risk assessment.)
> 3) Arizona CPAs said "he's trying to drum up business" and let that
> color their risk assessment
> 
> Similarly, your claim earlier "There was virtually no interest on the
> part of the CPA's to protect their customer's information"
> 
> 1) could be true
> 2) could be that the CPAs don't know how to differentiate themselves
> on this basis.
> 3) could be that your telemarketer stinks.
> 
> I'm glad to have you on the list and discussing your experience.
> Please don't take this as anything more than an attempt to offer
> alternate hypotheses.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:37:36AM -0700, George Toft wrote:
> | We tried to alert them all.  We published articles and ads in the 
> | Arizona Society of CPA magazine.
> | 
> | George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> | My IT Department
> | www.myITaz.com
> | 623-203-1760
> | 
> | Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.
> | 
> | 
> | blitz wrote:
> | > So one would/might postulate at this point the thieves are selecting 
> | > smaller targets, with less names and info. Especially ones with less 
> | > security, and obviously more to loose should they be compromised.
> | > 
> | > */There should be an alert to them all.
> | > 
> | > 
> | > /*At 23:39 2/3/2007, you wrote:
> | > 
> | >> I would expect to see more of these.  I met an accountant in Phoenix
> | >> that had just her hard drives stolen - guess what the thief was after?
> | >>
> | >> This is a sore point for me - we hired a telemarketer to call every CPA
> | >> in Phoenix.  There was virtually no interest on the part of the CPA's to
> | >> protect their customer's information from this type of event.
> | >>
> | >> BTW - 800 people for one firm means it's a small firm.
> | >>
> | >> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> | >> My IT Department
> | >> www.myITaz.com <http://www.myitaz.com/>
> | >> 623-203-1760
> | >>
> | >> Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.
> | >>
> | >>
> | >> Dissent wrote:
> | >> > http://www.wndu.com/news/headlines/5530966.html
> | >> >
> | >> > Eight hundred people are in jeopardy of having their credit ruined,
> | >> > because thieves in the night stole their personal information from a
> | >> > Cassopolis tax preparer.
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