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...
Compliance is building up to be the next Y2K for CIOs and IT directors, with warnings that failure to comply with new regulations could lead to huge fines and possibly jail for executives of organisations that fall foul of the legislation.
The recent rise in the amount of government regulation of corporations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the US and Basel II in Europe, is causing pain for resource-strapped IT departments, according to industry experts.
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...
Security firm Sophos has seen a dramatic rise in the number of viruses, worms and Trojan horses this year as more organised criminals turn to cyber crime. According to Sophos, their increased popularity shows the extent to which the creation of...
The provisions of some of these regulations could lead to more corporate executives languishing in jails in the future. Before any technology investments are made, companies need to perform an assessment of which regulations affect their business...