Clarifying mobile encryption requirements for 201 CMR 17.00 compliance
When I reported on amendments to the Massachusetts data protection law earlier this week, one of the comments that undersecretary of consumer affairs Barbara Anthony made was a point of interest to...
View ArticleEvaluating the cybersecurity plan and the role of a federal CISO
In this episode of the IT Compliance Advisor, Associate Editor Alexander B. Howard interviews Patricia Titus about the Obama Administration’s cybersecurity plan, the creation of a federal CISO and...
View ArticleInformation security and compliance resources from around TechTarget
The laws and regulations that CIOs and CISOs must understand and reflect in their operations are by nature applicable to many different areas of information technology. As a recent study on the privacy...
View ArticleIT governance, risk and compliance: Buzzword or not, GRC is relevant
As IT professionals log back in after the Thanksgiving holiday break, meeting regulatory compliance mandates continues to occupy significant amounts of both time and budget. The top regulatory...
View ArticleYahoo adds online privacy tool ahead of expected FTC compliance rules
FTC compliance now means new rules for social media marketing. By next year, FTC compliance could also mean ensuring that online advertising doesn’t violate tougher consumer privacy regulations — or...
View ArticleCloudAudit.org to offer tools for verifying cloud computing compliance
The Automated Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API (A6) working group is newly organized under the brand of CloudAudit. The stated goal of CloudAudit is to “provide a common interface that...
View ArticleWeb application security matters, even without a compliance mandate
Jeremiah Grossman, the CTO of White Hat Security, has been at the forefront of documenting the dangers of Web application security. As he points out on his blog, however, state and federal regulations...
View ArticleSEC provides additional guidance on XBRL compliance
In a public seminar held earlier this week on eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) compliance, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) offered further guidance on how it expects companies...
View ArticleCan you help us predict the IT compliance future?
What will be the issues, trends and developments that will have the biggest impact on the IT compliance world in 2011? We here at SearchCompliance.com have our own thoughts about that, but we would...
View ArticleWikiLeaks shows how better compliance technology can protect data
The latest WikiLeaks debacle hopefully pounds home the point to corporate IT shops why implementing sound compliance technology can better protect data, and what the consequences can be if they do not....
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