U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that its Office of Field Operations in Los Angeles will be sponsoring a seminar on steel identification, classification and trade law in Long Beach, California on March 29 - 30, 2006.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to the Pilot Bond Centralization Program section of its Web site a February 13, 2006 version of its guidance document entitled "Latest News and Developments." According to CBP, this document provides information on the Pilot Bond Centralization Program and current issues, policies, and procedures for processing bond applications. (See ITT's Online Archives or 12/08/05 news, 05120805, for BP's summary of CBP's November 29, 2005 version of its "Latest News and Developments" guidance document.)
Carriers must remain on guard against “pretexters” selling cellphone records and other customer proprietary network information (CPNI) even if most data brokers are forced to shut down online sales, 2 top information security experts told us. The gray market, with companies quietly selling information to private investigators and other favored customers, may be harder to shut down. The FCC and FTC are investigating companies that sell data obtained from carriers (CD Feb 12 p1) through pretexting. Legislation is expected in Congress.
Carriers must remain on guard against “pretexters” selling cellophane records and other customer proprietary network information (CPNI) even if most data brokers are forced to shut down online sales, 2 top information security experts told us. The gray market, with companies quietly selling information to private investigators and other favored customers, may be harder to shut down. The FCC and FTC are investigating companies that sell data obtained from carriers through pretexting. Legislation is expected in Congress.
In November 2005, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a general notice advising Customs brokers that the Triennial Status Report Fee of $100 that is assessed for each license held by a broker whether it may be an individual, partnership, association, or corporation, is due during the month of February 2006 (i.e. by February 28, 2006) along with the corresponding status report.
In a Tues. notice of proposed rulemaking, the FCC asked a battery of questions about steps the Commission could take to protect customer proprietary network information (CPNI). The Commission at least broaches the possibility of a number of mandates wireless carriers decry as burdensome. An FCC press release on the NPRM preceded the document itself by a week.
American Shipper reports that since February 2005, representatives from six ocean carriers and a committee of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) have been meeting and while these meetings have not yet resulted in tangible progress, the article states that the fact that the two sides are talking constructively is a major step in resolving their differences. (American Shipper, dated 12/05, www.americanshipper.com.)
The FCC late Fri. released a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require all telecom carriers to submit to the Commission each year certifications providing details on their protocols for protecting customer proprietary network information (CPNI). The FCC proposed that with the certificates a carrier submit a summary of all consumer complaints the previous year on the unauthorized release of CPNI, and a summary of any actions taken against data brokers.
The FCC likely will ask a battery of questions but draw few “tentative conclusions” in an imminent notice of proposed rulemaking on guarding customer records, sources said. Given the current dearth of detailed customer proprietary network information (CPNI) rules at FCC, the Commission is expected to issue few additional citations based on thousands of CPNI certifications filed for the record in recent days, a mandate the agency temporarily reimposed as part of an investigation (CD Feb 1 p5), they said. The FCC remains on track to release the NPRM later this week, Chmn. Martin told reporters Wed.
DoD will create an interoperable authentication network with the Federation for Identity & Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs), said that organization of large IT companies. The agreement formalizes cooperation between FiXs and DoD’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) back to 2003 to develop secure authentication of each other’s employees without compromising personal information. Each employer maintains its employees’ information -- as with bank customers and commercial ATMs -- but members follow a common set of operating rules and a uniform trust model. The FiXs board and other committees will include a DMDC member and FiXs will have similar representation at DMDC forums and meetings, FiXs said Mon. Each is using its own trust brokers to route identification verification requests between participating companies. FiXs includes BearingPoint, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, ChoicePoint, Citigroup and others. The agreement is in line with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which requires a standard for “secure and reliable forms of identification” for govt. employees and contractors. In a recent report, the Cyber Security Industry Alliance called HSPD-12 a “toothless tiger” because it lacks dedicated funding (WID Dec 14 p1).