What IT Needs to Know About Compliance

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Businesses must always be vigilant about data security and privacy, particularly in the global information-based economy. The need for security and privacy has never before been more apparent, with a new incident occurring practically every day. Businesses are dependent upon information technology (IT), not only to be successful in business, but also to be successful in protecting and controlling electronic data.

The risks that are an inherent part of IT make it necessary for IT leaders and IT personnel to know the data protection laws and regulations more than ever before. It is with this knowledge that they can incorporate information security and privacy within all the IT processes, throughout the entire systems development life cycle (SDLC).

There are many commonalities between the regulatory, contractual and policy requirements for protecting data. By realizing these commonalities IT can more successfully address compliance in a unified manner throughout the enterprise, and not try to address compliance issues in a piecemeal manner (which is typical but leads to significant compliance gaps).

I discuss these issues, the IT issues within a wide range of U.S. and international laws and regulations, and clearly list the IT requirements to demonstrate the commonalities, in a new article I posted on my site, "What IT Needs to Know About Compliance."

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Rebecca Herold's Bio:

Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.

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