Procurement Trend: Required Monitoring Post Data Breach

The federal employee data breach this week, triggered an emergency contract of $20+million to provide credit monitoring services.

It’s a common response to offer these services. The Texas Comptroller did the same a few years ago when state employee records were breached/exposed.

The techies say credit monitoring is only part of the solution when a person’s data is breached. Other parts to the solution are:

• Watching for phishing emails.
  • Employees can be coerced into providing information without realizing they are being coerced
• upgrade their personal systems
•  invest in firewall protections

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