In the United States, medical and insurance companies are bracing for a key deadline involving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which aims to protect the privacy of health records, among other things.
Legislation that's passed in the last two years - Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and California's Security Breach Information Act - is forcing companies to meet minimum levels of security for their...
That law, called the California Security Breach Information Act, and the federal Graham-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are intended to prod the industry to adopt better data-handling practices.
The tougher stance answered many critics' calls for legislating responsible security measures for businesses, in much the same way that the Graham-Leech-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) set data...
Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other laws will force CEOs to invest in back-end systems. It is clear that the improving profit picture is getting CEOs thinking, 'What am I going to do about growth?
On the face of it, there seems to be little for the security industry in Sarbanes-Oxley, which aims to make corporate accounting more transparent, or in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which deals with health care...