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...
IBM has partnered with Watchfire, a provider of online business management services, to help companies adhere to new privacy standards and data-handling regulations. That law, called the California Security Breach Information Act, and the federal...
More than ever, companies needing to comply with industry regulations have to ensure the consultants they hire are also compliant. Some regulations span all sectors, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the US public accounting legislation that was introduced...
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...
A lot of time is spent defining the policies and processes, before going into the use of technology and getting people to understand and co-operate to comply," he said. Like it or not, the clock is ticking for non-US companies that need to be...