Investing in privacy and your career--by design.

• Author: Wiler, Vicki
• Position: IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editor

Flipping through the "Up Front" section of most issues of Information Management reveals the extent to which privacy is a growing concern for governments, businesses, and consumers around the world.

In this issue, for example, you can read several privacy-related news items, including how Google is on the hot seat with the EU and the state of California for its privacy policy; Europe and Canada have embraced their citizens' "right to be forgotten" by forcing Google and other Internet companies to take down certain personal information upon citizens' requests; and Florida has strengthened accountability requirements for the security of personal information.

At the same time, cyber criminals are working overtime to attack this vulnerable information, resulting in the exponentially growing need for skilled cybersecurity specialists. This is good news for records and information management (RIM) professionals who want to expand their information governance (IG) skills to meet this challenge.

"We do see a lack of capability and capacity in skilled professionals, and that's partly due to massive demand across the world that stretches an already small, existing pool of people," Bryce Boland, Asia Pacific chief technology officer at California-based cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc., said in a recent Bloomberg Business-week interview.

"In the short term, many large organizations have found innovative ways of meeting the demand for cybersecurity professionals through internal recruitment and training," the Rand Corporation reported in "Hackers Wanted: An Examination of the Cybersecurity Labor Market."

This issue of Information Management includes several articles meant to help you expand your privacy-and security-related IG skills to meet your organization's needs. The cover article by Norman Mooradian, Ph.D., for example, uses the Privacy by Design concept to provide a framework for converting legal requirements for...