Canadian Bill Proposes to Upgrade Country’s Data Protection Regime
As announced in the press release on 16 June, the proposed Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022, (DCIA) will significantly bolster Canada’s lagging data protection laws by creating three sub-bills titled the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, and the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act (the latter of which would replace […]
Read more »Member News: American Baler Company announces personnel changes
June 6, 2022: Bellevue, OH – American Baler Company, an i-SIGMA Corporate Partner Member, announces the retirement of Jon Sage, Parts & Service Manager. Sage has worked with American Baler for over 23 years. His most recent post was Parts & Service Manager. Shawn Byers was promoted to Parts & Service Manager. Previously, Byers worked […]
Read more »Board Approves Revised Committee Guidelines
During this week’s Board of Directors meeting, the Board approved revised guidelines for several membership committees. These revised guidelines help to re-align committee values and processes associated with the i-SIGMA membership. In accordance with the dissolution of NAID and PRISM International membership divisions, the NAID AAA Certification Committee, chaired by Vlad Vasak of K-2 Partners […]
Read more »I Know You’re in a Hurry but Before You Decide…
When hiring a typical service provider – a painter or carpet cleaner, for instance – it’s expected that you’ll have questions. How much will it cost? When can you be here? How long will it take? There are some services, however – like those where you entrust the vendor with regulated, personal information – where […]
Read more »Board Approves Key Committee Appointments
Earlier this week, the i-SIGMA Board of Directors made several key appointments to different membership committees. Board Directors Rick Jackson, CSDS of American Documents Services (Las Cruces, NM, USA) and Margaret Meier, CSDS of UltraShred Technologies (Jacksonville, FL, USA) have been appointed as Chair and Vice Chair respectively of the Certification Support Committee. The purpose […]
Read more »Beyond Certification
The title of this blog may seem odd coming from a person who has spent the last 22 years promoting service provider certification. Please bear with me. As readers already know, the premise of Data Processor certifications has changed. Where once they simply provided a general reassurance that a reputable third party had signed off […]
Read more »Getting to Know Bowman Richards, CSDS, 2022 i-SIGMA Board of Directors President
In March of 2021, i-SIGMA concluded its annual member voting period, where members voted to see who they wished to see serve on the upcoming board. It was this election that saw the selection of Bowman Richards, CSDS as president-elect; meaning that after serving in this seat for 2021, he would be inducted in 2022 […]
Read more »Board Names Jennie Gift, CSDS as 2023 i-SIGMA Conference Chair
With the excitement of the 2022 i-SIGMA Conference still in the air having just wrapped last month in Orlando, FL, i-SIGMA is already working on plans for next year’s event. The i-SIGMA Board of Directors met yesterday and unanimously approved Jennie Gift, CSDS of CSR Privacy Solutions (CSR) (Jensen Beach, FL, USA) to Chair the 2023 […]
Read more »i-SIGMA Promotes New Director of Certification
i-SIGMA is pleased to announce the promotion of Olesia White to the position of Director of Certification. In her new role, Olesia will provide leadership and direction to the entirety of the Certification Department, ensuring the continued quality and success of the NAID AAA and PRISM Privacy+ Certification Programs. Olesia is a customer-centric professional with […]
Read more »Media Collection Containers, Key Control, & Custody
Secure data destruction service commonly provides clients with containers to accumulate paper or other media prior to destruction. And, while it is true that the containers are designed to protect the media from prying eyes and hands, they are not high security vaults, and clients or service providers losing sight of this put themselves at […]
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