Compliance news from FierceCIO

Compliance auditors may be the last people your team wants to see, but they have a job to do and there are ways you can make it easier--for all of you. Much of it comes down to common courtesy and Read more...

How did the Bertucci's restaurant chain figure out how to process more than 3.7 million credit card transactions a year while complying with federal and state regulations as well as industry rules? Read more...

If you sometimes feel as though the compliance officials in your organization don't quite get it when it comes to cloud security, recent survey data out of the Ponemon Institute indicates you're not Read more...

Should CIOs have to be unquestioning players in tracking employees for the purposes of compliance? As Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business, notes, the Read more...

In the wake of the Epsilon security breach and other recent attacks exposing personal data held by high-profile banks, federal authorities have beefed up the authentication measures financial firms Read more...

Data security regulations are becoming more prescriptive, and they are applicable to a wider range of organizations, including, in some cases, the suppliers of regulated companies. Enforcement Read more...

Regulatory requirements at the state and federal levels are putting growing pressure on companies to safeguard the privacy of data pertaining to customers, employees and suppliers. At the same time, Read more...

IT professionals, in the course of doing their jobs, face a minefield of potential legal missteps that could lead to fines or even time in jail, writes Peter S. Vogel in a post at InfoWorld. What's Read more...

Companies can have a lot of good reasons for not holding on to all of their old email, not the least of which is getting rid of content that might otherwise be requested through e-discovery. For Read more...

It's beginning to look like the rate of vulnerabilities is outpacing the ability to fix them. The work required to keep up with security and compliance tasks--patching, deploying controls, etc.--is Read more...