Security Policies and Implementation Issues, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER SUMMARY

This chapter described how important it is to conform to U.S. compliance laws and examined how technology and the Internet are driving globalization. With broad use of the Internet comes new threats. You also learned the importance of compliance to the economy and how it serves the public interest. The chapter examined a number of major compliance regulations. From these examples, you can see an increasing government need to regulate. Sometimes regulations result from public pressure when something goes wrong. The chapter examined these pressures and the motivations of both the government and the industry. The chapter also discussed how the industry tries to self-regulate to avoid government regulation to keep costs down ...