8 The Laws Most Likely to Affect IT and IT Security1
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.
—Warren Buffett
8.1 Introduction
This chapter will provide a summary of certain laws that have some IT requirements or impact. It is NOT a substitute for legal advice, which only a licensed attorney can provide. Instead, the focus will be on the general purpose of the law with special emphasis on those elements of particular interest to chief information security officers (CISOs).
8.2 Managing Personal Data
As daily headlines remind you, many laws relate to the security of personal data. Perhaps the best known are the state data breach ...
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