Tips For Compliance With The SHIELD Act

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Tips For Compliance With The SHIELD Act

• The SHIELD Act New York requires businesses to
  create a Data Security Program that monitors
  and improves cyber-security. The Act also
  requires businesses to implement reasonable
  safeguards to ensure that private information is
  stored and erased safely, as well as to notify
  their customers of data breaches. Businesses will
  be fined if they fail to follow these
  requirements.

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How Will the SHIELD Act Be Implemented?

• The SHIELD Act requires that businesses in New
  York State notify people affected by breaches of
  their personal information. If a business
  violates this law, the New York Attorney General
  can enforce it in court. The Attorney General has
  three years to act on a violation if he or she
  becomes aware of it. Fines may be issued where a
  business fails to notify people affected by a
  data breach.

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Who Is Required to Comply with the SHIELD Act?

• The SHIELD Act requires that any person or
  business that owns or licenses computerized data
  containing private information of a New York
  resident must take several steps to ensure the
  security of that data.

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Your Guide to Complying with the SHIELD Act

• Organizations must implement a data security
  program that includes at least the following
  train and manage employees in security practices
  and procedures select service providers capable
  of maintaining appropriate safeguards, and
  require those safeguards by contract adjust the
  security program in light of business changes or
  new circumstances.

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