The Capitol Gazette in Annapolis, MD, the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, CA, and just recently, a disgruntled worker in Virginia Beach, VA who took his personal grievances out on his workers at a government office, killing 12 people. All recent examples of workplace violence that are becoming all too frequent. According to a recent study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), approximately 1 out of 7 Americans do not feel safe at work.
Sixty-nine percent of survey respondents are still storing some data on premises, which can lead to data and security breaches as 42 percent still experience accidental insider threats, says a report.
In May 2019 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7030, permitting the arming of teachers and staff in Florida schools beginning October 2019.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan to decrease police presence in the city’s schools by limiting the situations in which law enforcement will be allowed to respond to matters that arise on school grounds.
Safe and Sound Schools, a national school safety non-profit, released its State of School Safety Report 2019, in collaboration with Boston University College of Communication.
Seventy percent of healthcare professionals are "very" or "extremely" confident in their knowledge of where their firm's data resides, according to the Integris survey of execs and IT decision makers US healthcare organizations.
There were 954 total data breach notifications under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme in one year, according to the NDB Scheme 12-Month Insights Report.
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