CSO

Massachusetts has taken the lead in enacting legislation to protect its residents' personal information. The new Massachusetts Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth (MA 201 CMR 17) was created in response to the increasing number cases of companies losing personally identifiable data, whether through accidents or acts of malice.

This sweeping new legislation applies to any organization that stores, licenses, or uses personally identifiable information of any Massachusetts resident. Understanding the regulation and what is required for compliance is critical for organizations, as they are required to safeguard personal data – whether that data is patient, customer or employee records. The CSO Executive Seminar on Mass 201 CMR 17 will help you achieve and maintain compliance by the January 2010 deadline, and equip you with actionable steps that you can take back to your company to put into place right away.

Digital ID World is your source for the straight talk, hard-won lessons, and practical insight derived from real-world deployments. Our focus is simple: putting enterprise IT professionals onstage to give you their unvarnished views on what it took to achieve their objectives and help you learn how to help manage your business with identity.

While high profile data loss and data breach events grab the headlines, data loss occurs in other less visible, but no less pernicious, ways as well. Data loss and data leakage encompass many other aspects of securing your business systems, like risk management, monitoring and alerting. Every step of the process is essential to assembling a comprehensive approach to data loss prevention. Any industry that gathers and manages sensitive personal data as part of its business activities must pay careful attention to guarding that data for what it is -- a business-critical resource. It's an ethical imperative. It's a legal imperative. It's a business imperative.