COMPLIANCE

COMPLIANCE

As the internet has grown more pervasive, the risks to organizations continue to grow. Regulations have increasingly been created to protect data, users, and organizations from potential threats. Often, the regulations require implementation of appropriate information management tools to comply.

Websense can help. Websense products and services not only aid compliance with some of the more prominent information security regulations, but help increase productivity, manage bandwidth, and decrease legal liability.

For more information on compliance:

Ensuring Information Security: New Regulatory Challenges How Websense Helps Organizations Achieve Regulatory Compliance

Ensuring Information Security: New Regulatory Challenge. How Websense Helps Organisations Achieve Regulatory Compliance in the UK

Some of the regulations that Websense helps meet:

STATE BREACH DISCLOSURE ACTS IN THE UNITED STATES

Several states have enacted legislation requiring organizations to notify customers when unauthorized distribution of their personal information has occured.

Websense can help organizations maintain compliance with these laws by mitigating the risk of internet security breaches with Websense Web Security Suite, Websense Enterprise with Security Filtering and Client Policy Manager.

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Websense Web Security Suite

Websense Enterprise and Security Filtering

Client Policy Manager

HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996 in part to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the United States' health care system by establishing national standards for electronic health care transactions that are currently carried out manually on paper. However, it was also recognized that advances in electronic technology could erode the privacy of health information. Therefore, there are provisions in HIPAA that require health care organizations to adopt privacy and security protections for individually identifiable health information.

Websense Enterprise with Security Filtering, Websense Web Security Suite, and Client Policy Manager can help with compliance and policy-based management of desktop applications and web site visits to prevent access to protected information by unauthorized parties.

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HIPAA Compliance

Websense Web Security Suite

Websense Enterprise with Security Filtering

Client Policy Manager

GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY ACT

Section 501 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) mandates that financial services in firms the United States implement and enforce a written "information security program" to protect non-public customer data. It is therefore important that financial institutions be able to monitor and track any electronic information entering or exiting their messaging systems as an integral part of IT security.

Websense can help financial institutions comply with GLBA by increasing security from web-based threats as well as implementing policy-based management to protect against unauthorized access to sensitive information.

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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Websense Web Security Suite

Websense Enterprise with Security Filtering

Client Policy Manager

CHILDREN’S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT (CIPA)

CIPA requires libraries and schools in the United States to install web filters in order to retain federal funding and discounts for computers and computer access.

Websense offers web filtering software that is CIPA compliant.

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Children's Internet Protection Act

Websense Enterprise

SARBANES-OXLEY ACT (SOX)

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is US compliance legislation, signed in 2002. The stated purpose of the Act is "to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the security laws, and for other purposes." Websense can help by providing internet security at the desktop, network and gateway to protect corporate data.

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SOX