Legislations and IT Security Strategy

Legal Compliance White Paper

Corporations of the 21st century must face up to the growing challenge of compliance. Governments worldwide are regulating information management and security with increasing amounts of legislation. This legislation is often written in ambiguous legal language which may require small hordes of legal experts to decipher. These experts may understand the legal requirements for compliance, but may be ignorant of what constitutes a pragmatic solution.

Companies operating globally may be subject to legislation from several legal jurisdictions and local companies may be subject to legislation from entirely different regions of the globe. Laws are overlapping, jurisdictions are becoming irrelevant, and corporate concern is growing. In the wake of prominent management failures, governments are under intense public pressure to pass more laws and regulations. Even developing nations such as India have had to react to the security aspects in the outsourcing market.
As companies strive to reduce costs, improve customer service, increase sales and deal with environmental issues, they must now adapt to the constantly changing legal environment of information management regulations. Increased outsourcing necessitates the exchange of data with external partners, which raises the risk of data theft and errors significantly. The threats are compounded. At the core of all these laws are authorization, identity management, data integrity and security.