Now is the time for businesses to focus on their data security
measures to ensure compliance with the law and regulations and to
develop an action plan in the event of a breach
Almost daily, the news headlines include security breaches at
major companies. The issue of secure data protection should be a
top priority for companies in every industry. Businesses regularly
receive and store personal information about their employees and
customers, and an inadvertent breach in the security of this
personal information can lead to significant liability under one or
more of the state laws designed to deal with this exact
problem.
Massachusetts became the 39th state to enact comprehensive
legislation targeted at protecting its residents' personal
information from identity fraud when Governor Patrick signed into
law "An Act Relative to Security Freezes and Notification of
Data Breaches" on August 2, 2007. For more information, visit
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaw07/sl0
