Organizations not only need anti-theft security to protect their computer and data assets, they're also required by some state and federal laws and industry rules to maintain a secure environment, limit access to personal information, and notify individuals in the case of a data breach. Here's a summary of these requirements:
Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002: requires public companies to have strict internal controls and independent auditing of financial information as a a proactive defense against fraud. In many respects, security underpins the requirement of Sarbanes Oxley. It is therefore important to quickly establish a credible and detailed security policy.
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act): This Federal legislation signed in 1996 and updated in 2003 requires health care providers and insurers to implement “appropriate [...] physical safeguards for all workstations that access electronic PHI” (protected health information) and to restrict access to authorized users only.
The Gram-Leachy Bliley Act of 1999: Requires financial institutions to create, document, and continuously audit security procedures to protect non-public personal information of their clients, including precautions to prevent unauthorized electronic access.
PCI Standards: Rules set up by the credit card industry, effective June 2005, address the growing concern over identity theft and fraud. All merchants that accept credit cards are required to comply with requirements that call for encrypted transmission of cardholder data, periodic network scans, and logical and physical access controls.
FISMA-FIPS: The Federal Information Processing Standards, an update to the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, issued an update in March 2006 entitled “Standards for minimum security requirements for federal information and information systems.” Included are standards for physical and environmental security that state: “federal organizations must limit physical access to information systems, equipment, and the respective physical operation environment to protect the physical plant and support infrastructure.”
Information Breach Notification Statutes: Companies face huge financial risks and legal repercussions when confidential information is disclosed through computer theft or by other means. SB 1386—the California Security Breach Information Act—is similar to laws in 38 states which require organizations that maintain personal information about individuals to inform those individuals if the security of their information is compromised. The Act was created to help stem the increasing incidence of identity theft. The states listed have similar laws in place, and federal legislation is pending.
Computer and network security is a hot topic these days with software solutions getting much of IT buyers' attention. The headline grabbing stories, however, underscore the growing threat of computer theft. Organizations need to protect their computer and network assets not only through encryption and firewalls, etc.; they also need to reduce their computer theft risk and avoid the damaging headlines that sometimes result. To illustrate the scale of computer theft in America, we compiled the latest statistics.
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