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.
Anyone distributing instant-messaging programs, File Transfer Protocol software or internet Relay Chat clients would have to follow a complicated set of regulations to be published by the Federal Trade Commission, which might as well be renamed...
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...
As envisaged in my terms of reference, these include the management accountability framework, tone from the top, culture and training, as well as technical measures. In the wake of the loss of 25 million personal records by Her Majesty's Revenue...