Posts Tagged ‘regulations’

Legal Requirements for Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Earlier today following my online seminar, “Effective Training and Awareness: The Key to Information Security Success”  (http://gocsi.com/Training2011/OD/Awareness), I received the following question: 

 Where might I locate a summary breakdown of training regulations by industry? i.e. Pharma 

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How Encryption Supports Compliance

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

In this episode I discuss how encryption supports compliance as well as effectively protects personal information.  Encryption is an under-utilized security tool.  Considering the infinite number of today’s risks, threats and vulnerabilities, encryption can effectively keep unauthorized individuals and systems from accessing sensitive information and thwart many types of attacks.  In today’s business environment with sensitive information being stored in multiple locations, many of them mobile, encrypting information is an effective privacy safeguard organizations can add to their arsenal of safeguard tools.  I also discuss incidents that occurred and how the laws, regulations, and regulatory bodies encourage the use of encryption.