Sometimes requirements for administering federal grants are presented in mind-numbing detail. Sometimes, they are not. Federal policy ambiguity on the subject of “protected personally identifiable information (PII)” is an important case in point.
According to federal rules, such information is what “can be used to distinguish an individual’s identity.” But there’s a lot more to it than that. The Office of Management and Budget directs that, as part of a duty to establish and maintain internal controls over federal awards, grant recipients and subrecipients must “take reasonable measures to safeguard protected personally identifiable information that awarding agencies consider sensitive.”
Beyond issuing a long list of the types of information to protect, OMB stopped short of explaining what reasonable protections might entail. With news about high profile information breaches showing up regularly, PII protection has taken on a new urgency.
This webinar will show you how to respond to the federal mandate in a compliant-sensible way. You’ll learn about:
- Federal expectations and related internal controls
- How to distinguish between publicly available PII and protected PII
- How to elevate staff sensitivity and knowledge about PII protections
- How to align standard elements of internal control with privacy protection
- Assessing the risk that protected PII can be compromised
- State-of-the-art measures that can mitigate risks
- Efforts to balance costs and benefits in creating protections
- Features of a sound contract with a third party to handle PII for you
- Responsibilities for reporting a breach involving protected PII
- What we learned from the experiences of federal agencies and the commercial sector
Hand-out Materials:
Attendees will receive presentation slides as well as access to background materials.
Allowable Charges
The costs of webinars sponsored by Federal Fund Management Advisor™ are allowable charges to your federal grants and subgrants. The cost principles issued by OMB under its uniform guidance (and applicable to all types of awardees) state, “The cost of training and education for employee development is allowable” (2 CFR 200.472).
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