Compliance

The issues

Education - Colleges and universities are under more pressure to protect the data they collect, store, process, use, and disclose on their students, faculty and staff. Many of the compliance regulations that affect the corporate world get multiplied in the educational setting due to the requirement of colleges and universities to protect health information (HIPAA), student records (FERPA), payment card information (PCI), and student loan information (GLBA). Learn more >>>
Healthcare - Healthcare organizations must verify compliance with HIPAA and its accompanying regulations to ensure they maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic protected health information. According to HIPAA, sufficient security measures must be implemented to reduce risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level. Learn more >>>
Finance - Financial services organizations have many security challenges including growing government regulations, an increasing number of audits, identity theft and other threats. There is tremendous pressure to maintain cusotmer and financial data in a secure and accountable fashion and mitigate risks to your information systems. Security management including vulnerability assessment, compliance, and risk management is a serious business issue for financial services organizations. Learn more >>>
Government - Nothing is more rewarding to a hacker than to compromise government systems and steal sensitive data. Being able to measure and control risk and vulnerabilities on your IT operations enables you to thwart malicious attacks and to ensure compliance with a number of regulations and requirements. FISMA requires government agencies to establish an agency-wide program to improve the security of government information. Learn more >>>
Merchants - According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the number of accounts compromised since the ChoicePoint security breach in February 2005 has exceeded 55 million. According to the Nilson Report, there has been over $1 billion in credit card fraud since 2004. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI Standard) defines merchant requirements for securing cardholder information. This worldwide standard for consumer data protection across the payment industry was developed to counteract the rising number of incidents of stolen cardholder account data. Merchants who depend on credit card purchases for their revenue, both online and through point of sale systems, have the most to lose if their businesses are not allowed to take credit cards. Learn more >>>
Public Companies - Sarbanes-Oxley is about improving transparency and accountability in business processes and corporate accounting to restore confidence in public markets. Public companies must develop and maintain effective controls and processes to prevent fraud, misuse and/or loss of financial data and transactions. The regulation specifies that organizations must protect financial data from security breaches that may have a material effect on financial statements. Learn more >>>