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.
But the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has such grave concerns about the cost of compliance and data protection laws that it is advising all its members to not comply with the code. A government code to force internet service...
Companies are still woefully ill-informed about the compliance impact of regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), with many believing they can hand over responsibility by simply outsourcing it, according to new research.
Company directors have been reminded that a failure to comply with tightening regulations can and will land them in prison, despite continued apathy among many. Under regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley non-compliance can result in personal...
An Accenture survey of compliance chiefs in 63 US and European banks found the majority were struggling to implement the IT systems necessary to comply with Basel II, a regulation aimed at making financial companies focus on business risk.
The assessment will form the basis of a company's strategy and plan for investing in technology - for example, in automated controls for managing information produced within an organisation to achieve goals of privacy and operational transparency...