The Navy's Chief Information Officer Robert Carey recently received notification of a compromise of his personally identifiable information (PII), reports govinfosecurity.com. For Carey, it was the sixth such notification, and came from the Army--where he hasn't worked in 24 years. Carey used the event to describe his philosophy on data protection and enumerate a seven-point summary of his department's efforts to reduce the risk of a breach within the Department of the Navy. "In today's Information Age, PII must be treated with extreme care because unauthorized access to someone's digital identity can and does cause grave consequences," Carey wrote.
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