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Sensitive patient records held by healthcare organizations have to be stored and processed securely, both to guard the patients’ privacy and to comply with government regulations. As a healthcare provider responsible for patient information, you have to be able to detail what measures you are taking to safeguard patient data and you have to show that these measures are...

Protecting your client data and be compliance with Data Privacy Laws is one of the main concerns for SMEs. SMEs face particular conditions when they set out to use IT to streamline their operations. Some key conditions are Their IT budgets are small, and they may not have very specialized manpower They may not have the capability to implement complex security solutions ...

As increasing amounts of critical and sensitive data comes to be stored with businesses and consequent to some situations where significant amounts of data have been lost or stolen, regulatory pressure to ensure protection of sensitive data continues to increase. As new threats are discovered, we can expect regulations to get tighter. Requirements will continue to change...

American organizations should double down on data security with encryption and implement new data protection strategies in light of data privacy movements overseas. The Safe Harbor ruling certainly introduced a wrench into the typical enterprise's data security strategy, as it essentially dissolved a long-standing agreement between the U.S. and EU in regard to data...

The safe harbor agreement is a key component of conducting business overseas, but all that has changed. Data privacy and trans-Atlantic relationships have been protected by the "safe harbor" agreement since 2000. This joint decision made by the European Union and the United States government stated that U.S.-based businesses could send EU citizens' data back to American...

Any organization that deals with payment card data must comply with the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standards. Cloud computing provides organizations with a way to reinvent their IT systems, replacing legacy hardware with services that scale according to business needs. Nowadays, the cloud acts as a differentiator between the best and the worst businesses, but...

Bill S-4 or the Digital Privacy Act or An Act to Amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act is the Canadian government's latest attempt to reform PIPEDA, and it was passed into a law as of June 18, 2015. After a tumultuous 2014 and a similar start to 2015, the Canadian government approved changes made to the Personal Information Protection...

Law firms need to balance compliance with the cloud in an age when both are critical to success. The cloud has become a fundamental part of business, and thanks to the cost-efficiency, scalability, and agility that these systems and services offer, it won't be going away anytime soon. From storage to computing, every organization in a variety of sectors has empowered...