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...
Another impetus for storage software purchases is organisations' need to comply with new rules related to data retention, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, said Bill North, an analyst at IDC. Veritas' fourth-quarter storage software revenue rose...
Company directors could find themselves in court for failing to comply with new corporate-accountability legislation - all because staff are chatting over IM. Many free-to-use packages do not have the necessary built-in security and archiving to...
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...
The shift is just one of several trends the software giant is labelling part of a "new world of work" that its next generation Office software will address, in order to step up to the challenge posed by federal record-keeping regulations such as...
Any amount of time that data is stored on an outside server is too long for institutions that must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which provide strict...