Treasury Security Summit - new sample security plan template and WISP info

[PATAX]

Above just released to help tax professionals protect data. revised 08/02/2022 about thirty pages. link: irs.gov/pub/newsroom/creating-a-wisp.pdf

[IRonMaN]

They must have just wanted to keep your stuff safe - that link doesn't work.

[PATAX]

Yeah you're right Iron Man. I tried it too and it didn't work from my post. But when I typed in that exact link then it did work. I'm not sure what is going on there. I couldn't paste that link to there so I typed it in. But if someone else can get that link to work then they can post it.

[PATAX]

@IRonMaN @abctax55 @sjrcpa Try link now. I got it too work - it was cutting off url address after "creating-a" even though I typed in correct address multiple times.

[abctax55]

@PATAX  - nice snooping to find out I even visited this thread 😉😉

[PATAX]

@abctax55 my GSD taught me how to Snoop. Just to walk a mile with her it takes 1 hour.

[sjrcpa]

It works now. You are a good snooper. 

[PATAX]

Thank You.

[BobKamman]

I remember diagramming a lot of sentences for Mr Johnstone in 8th Grade English class. It’s a habit I can’t seem to break. Right now I’m trying to diagram this sentence:

"To combat external risks from outside the firm network to the security, confidentiality, and/or integrity of electronic, paper, or other records containing PII, and improving - where necessary - the effectiveness of the current safeguards for limiting such risks, the Firm has implemented the following policies and procedures."

The Washington Post used to have a daily feature where they published examples of the strange language spoken by bureaucrats, under the standing headline "Gobbledygook."  Now, patriotic Americans are smart enough to realize that this is a plot to put so many meaningless words in our mouths that we forget how to speak English.  

[IRonMaN · Accepted solution]

"To combat external risks from outside the firm network to the security, confidentiality, and/or integrity of electronic, paper, or other records containing PII, and improving - where necessary - the effectiveness of the current safeguards for limiting such risks, the Firm has implemented the following policies and procedures."

That sounds pretty impressive ......... and wordy.  Can I just type that up and call it my security plan?😁  Besides, don't they have enough tax cheats to catch instead of spending their time seeing what kind of BS tax preparers can type up to try and make them happy?