In an article for the Institute for Critical Infrastructure
Technology, Kirk Nahra explains what security professionals need to
know about privacy law.
Excerpt: Security existed as a business norm
long before it became a legal and compliance requirement.
Doctors' offices locked their doors at night to ensure no one
could access their records. Stores took precautions when they
walked the daily cash receipts to the bank. Now, it is enormously
more complicated to guarantee data security, which is the physical
and technological protection of both personal data and sensitive
proprietary information. Appropriate best practices and legal
requirements are growing every day, across all industries, and
around the world.
