Regulations and Compliance

One of the fastest-growing sectors in the information security field is compliance. Compliance means ensuring that your organization obeys internal policies, as well as any applicable laws or other regulatory requirements. Regulatory requirements are the laws enacted by the federal government and individual states to establish what is acceptable in business. The United States lacks a single federal law or regulation that covers all aspects of cybersecurity and denotes what is acceptable behavior regarding data and customer information. You will find that your security program, in conjunction with the security technologies supporting it, are critical to ensuring compliance with a growing number of regulations.

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