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Re: New Nationwide Breach Law Could Force Data-Centric SecurityPush
From: "Cloude \"Freggy\"" <freggy () fastwebnet it>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:38:41 +0200
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http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/security-management/230600093/new-nationwide-breach-law-could-force-data-centric-security-push.html By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer Dark Reading June 13, 2011 The surge in high-impact data breaches in the first half of 2011 -- and its resulting attention from consumers --is increasing the pressure on federal lawmakers and regulators to introduce nationwide data breach disclosure and protection laws. Though no one is sure what its final language might say, a federal law requiring companies to disclose their breaches has a better chance of passing this year than ever before, and experts believe that enterprises will need to bolster data-centric protection policies and monitoring programs to ready themselves. "It’s likely that any national data breach law will attempt to directly address data security," says Josh Shaul, CTO for Application Security Inc., an application security tool vendor. "This will force organizations to change today’s perimeter-focused IT security model to pay much more attention to protecting sensitive information where it lives in databases and file systems." Making the biggest waves last week was the introduction of the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act by Senator Patrick Leahy, which among other provisions would criminalize the cover-up of a data breach. If such a law introduces federal criminal charges against enterprises that do not disclose breaches in a timely manner, some experts believe that monitoring of account activity and potential breach signs would likely grow in importance. [...]
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