Compliance

Compliance

Information Technology Security Compliance is a necessity for certain industries and ideal for all industries, businesses must practice regulatory guidelines to be within compliance of the industry standard. Example of industries and the compliance they must follow are the following:

• Medical Professionals & Health Insurance Companies must comply with HIPAA
• Financial Professionals must follow a list of regulations found in the Federal Financial Institution Handbook
• Retail stores must follow the regulations for Payment Card Industry Security Council’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

As a business, you have a duty to your customer to protect their personal information. There are many and good reasons to have security compliance in place. Security compliance lends your business to organization on many levels so for example only an authorized user will have access to certain information. These access controls give your company the ability to monitor your employees and do accountability checks which promotes a secure and steadfast company culture. Security compliance increases your data management effectiveness as a company. When handling personal information, it is not only important to protect that information but to properly manage it as well.

There are regulations and guidelines you must follow for certain industries as mentioned above however regardless of your industry – it is a good idea to have any type of security compliance in order, a standard for protecting customer data. All of this security compliance and regulation can be overwhelming especially if you are a small business owner with out an IT department. The EverTech information technology team is trained to implement and organize security controls and compliance and to offer you 24/7 tech support thereafter.