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With regulatory compliance becoming a growing fact of life, protecting
corporate databases has become top priority for most enterprises. For
instance, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SoX) act now requires senior executives to
personally vouch for the accuracy and reliability of corporate financial
data, ensuring that integrity of source data has become a major issue
for publicly traded firms. Because of our unique flexibility,
Secure.Data can be tailored to address the regulatory and security
challenges facing your sector. Here are several examples.
Financial Services.
Recent years have seen the emergence of new regulations promoting
transparency and accountability in the financial services industries.
For instance, provisions of the
Sarbanes-Oxley (Sox) Act require senior officers of publicly traded
firms to personally vouch for financial figures reported in SEC filings.
Additionally, provisions of the
Financial
Modernization Act of 1999 (also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLBA)
Act), require financial institutions to protect consumer privacy and
prohibit collecting personal financial information under false
pretences.
Secure.Data helps financial institutions comply with these
regulations by applying military-grade encryption technology that
prevents unauthorized access to sensitive data, such as corporate
finances, consumer credit card numbers, or similar information. Our
patented capabilities to protect information down to data-item level,
and our robust management and audit capabilities help financial
institutions ensure that only authorized personnel have access to the
data, and that the data has not been tampered with.
For more information on Protegrity’s Financial Services solutions,
click here.
Healthcare. With the passage
of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),
healthcare providers are required to protect the confidentiality of
patient medical records. Secure.Data can be targeted at protecting
critical patient data, providing robust access controls and audit trails
to ensure that patient privacy has not been breached.
For more information on Protegrity’s Healthcare solutions,
click here
Manufacturing. The
manufacturing sector is growing more “virtual” all the time, as
manufacturers focus on core competencies, relying increasingly on OEM
suppliers to help them assemble and build final products. For instance,
in the automotive and electronics industries, the percentage of supplier
content in finished products is growing rapidly as automakers
concentrate on final assembly, while electronics manufacturers operate
elaborate supply chains involving multiple players from wafer fab to
final products, such as computers, disk drives, and network routers. In
this environment, suppliers may deliver components and subsystems to a
wide array of customers who compete with one another. The result is that
suppliers often gain access to advanced product design data from
different customers. To preserve trading relationships, they must
actively guard the secrecy of such design data. Secure.Data provides the
perfect solution for OEMs who must prove to their customers that the
confidentiality of product design data is maintained
e-Commerce and Commerce.
Visa recently announced the launch of its
Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP), a list of 12 basic
security requirements with which all Visa payment system constituents
need to comply. In addition, with online shopping growing, it has become
essential for online retailers to guard the confidentiality of customer
data, such as names, addresses, and credit card numbers. Consequently,
today most commerce web sites strongly encrypt transactions that are
carried out online. To maintain customer confidence, online retailers
are extending privacy controls to customer databases as well.
Secure.Data is well-suited for both commerce and e-commerce providers
who must protect consumer data in order to protect their business. In
particular, Secure.Data can help commerce providers meet the following
VISA/CISP requirements: Protect stored data; restrict access by “need to
know;” assign unique ID to each person with computer access; track all
access to data by unique ID; implement and maintain an information
security policy.
Government. In a post 9/11
world that has seen growing activity in homeland security and
counter-terrorism efforts, protecting the confidentiality of highly
sensitive data has grown even more vital. Applying military-grade
encryption to national security data, Secure.Data provides a solution
for national security agencies under the gun to protect highly
classified information from users lacking proper security clearances
Other regulations for which Secure.Data helps ensure compliance
include:
- California's Database Security Breach Notification Act, SB 1386
- Canada's Personal Information Act (PIPEDA)
- EU's Data Privacy Directive
- NCUA 748
- NERC Cyber Security Standards
- Data Protection Act 1998, EU
- Basel II Capital Accords
For more information on Protegrity or any of our offer products,
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