Who is Critical Identity?
Critical Identity's team of experts specialise in providing solutions, compliant with international best practices, that protect personal information, as well as your organisation, in a complex regulatory environment.
What is Personal Information?
Personal Information is defined in the Protection of Personal Information Bill as information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, or existing juristic person, including:
- the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the person
- information relating to their educational, medical, financial, criminal or employment history
- any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, etc.
- the blood type or any other biometric information
- correspondence sent by the person
NOTE: The Protection of Personal Information Act no. 9 of 2009 ammends the definition of Personal Information contained in the Promotion of Access to Information Act No. 2 of 2000, and the Electronic Communications & Transactions Act No. 25 of 2002.
The 2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report examines 285 million records compromised in 2008. The study reveals some startling statistics:
- More electronic records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years combined.
- Mobile devices (USB drives, laptops, iPods, etc.) accounted for only 0.05% of breached records
- Database servers accounted for 75 percent of all compromised records
- Payment card data = 98% of all records breached
- SQL injection attack is a top cause of data leaks
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