Seminars and Group Training Services
Business seminars
Targeted for executives and HR managers, we design seminars and workshop on topics on business management or regulation changes.
We also provide seminars for employees to protect businesses from intellectual property security issues. Please contact us for specifics.
Subjects
- Protection of personal information and risk management
→ Please refer seminar script for further details. - Issues in hiring at small and medium-sized enterprise and start up venture companies.
- Total labor cost analysis from financial statements.
- Formation of business entity and application of labor/social insurance. e.t.c.
Seminar script
On Protecting Confidential Information (from seminar held on October 13th)
On October 13th, I gave a lecture regarding "Corporate Responsibility and Risk Management"
(subtitle: Preparing for steps to Protect Confidential Information and Revision to Social Insurance)
http://www.mipro.or.jp/information/imp/seminar/index.html
Act on the Protection of Personal Information, which will go into effect on April 1st, 2007, stipulates the obligations of private companies and penalties for failing to meet them.
It applies to private companies which obtain and make use of information more than 5,000 people for business purposes and retain it in an easily-searchable form such as a database, customer files, name card holders etc.
Please refer to the brochure prepared by the government.
http://www5.cao.go.jp/seikatsu/kojin/jigyousha/01.pdf (in Japanese)
Since leaking corporate confidential information is becoming a serious social problem, it is said that there are many agents who are dealing with name lists. That means information = money. However, we might be short of such perception.
Then let's consider it from different angle.
Why do personal computers need passwords?
--- It might be difficult to answer.
Then why do you need password when you use your cash card?
--- Of course, you can withdraw money from your bank account using your card.
That is to say, cash card = money.
We have valuable information in our company PCs, which means information in our company PCs = money.
We never tell our cash card to our colleague nor even to our close friends.
On the other hand, we tend to treat our company PC's password less carefully.
Assume that a CD-ROM goes missing from your company. This disk itself is worth only 100 yen. However, if the CD-ROM contains confidential information about several million clients, it may results in uncountable losses, possibly more than a billion yen as seen in the previous case.
Therefore, everyone involved in business operations-directors, managers, and employees-should recognize the importance of information security. I recommend that you conduct a morale survey concerning information security in your company.
The following is a part of a questionnaire which I introduced in the seminar.
Administration of Company PCs and Floppy Discs
- A notebook PC or FD has gone missing in the past.
- I have left PC in the condition of display showing confidential information while being away from desk for a long time.
- I have told my user ID or password to my colleague, or attached a memo which depicts my password on display.
- I don't know who is controlling common use PCs and common user IDs.
- I have brought company PC or FD home without permission from the company.
- I have brought my own PC or FD into the company and used it.
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