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Compliance

Whether it's data privacy issues such as the Data Protection Act, financial compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley,  or environmental laws such as the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), chances are that one of these affects your organisation in some way.

Compliance is nothing to fool around with, and it's imperative that your organisation understands its responsibilities for safeguarding protected data. Protected data is any information that someone could use to identify an individual. Information protected by legislation can include:

• Salary and fringe benefits (except for federal employees)
• Terms of employment (including performance and disciplinary records)
• Academic and educational history
• Criminal investigation and arrest history
• Employment history (including general or security clearance information)
• Biographical history
• Social Security information
• Identification codes
• Personnel profile (including home address and phone number)
• Medical history

Your organisation's network obviously contains and/or processes protected sensitive information. Unauthorised disclosure of such sensitive information could adversely impact your organisation with both civil and criminal liabilities. To protect yourself and your company, it's vital that you implement some extra precautions.