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Regulatory Compliance

For regulatory compliance purposes, IT personnel must know where their assets are, who is using them, and what is on them. As countless organizations can attest, the loss of a single notebook computer poses a serious security risk. To reduce exposure and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations, IT professionals must be able to protect data on every asset – including laptops – and accurately track hardware, provide auditing capabilities and maintain historical records.

Corporate

Government

Home Office

Health Care

Education

Protecting Data Is Not An Option – It is Mandatory

IT departments that operate with little regard for compliance policies expose themselves, their employees, customers, students or patients to unnecessary risks and potential liability. Regulations vary by geographical location and sector, but can include:


USA EMEA

• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley
• HIPAA
• FERPA
• Title One
• California Senate Bill 1386

• Basel I & II
• Data Protection Act
• Freedom of Information Act

Avoid Costly Penalties – Ensure Regulatory Compliance

Most government legislation is designed to protect customers’ privacy rights or place tighter controls on data and reporting. Absolute helps with regulatory compliance by protecting data, tracking hardware, providing auditing capabilities, and acting as a historical record of computing assets. In cases where machines are stolen containing sensitive information, an optional Data Delete function can be used to remotely wipe machines using a U.S. Department of Defense-approved algorithm.

Case Study: Surrey Schools

“At Surrey School District, we use AbsoluteTrack to verify software license compliance on each machine, perform lifecycle management and execute our annual ‘true up’, which is essentially an inventory count of CPU levels, base bar and licensing,” says Dan Turner, IT Director at Surrey School District. “With over 100 schools in the District, the true up was an annual headache for my team of 55 in IT services.”

“CAAST (Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft) has been known to levy some serious fines against institutions that do not take software license regulations seriously – and not just corporations, but school districts as well,” says Turner. “AbsoluteTrack has become a critical tool in allowing us to help the schools ensure they stay onside with software compliance, because we can look at our daily reports for verification.”

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Computrace Ensures Compliance

Ensure that your security is never compromised and you meet all the requirements of data privacy government regulations.

  • Use Computrace to track all IT assets, their location and usage
  • Use Data Delete to remotely delete sensitive information in the case of theft
  • Ensure that your organization meets local and international regulatory requirements

CPR: Compliance, Protection, Recovery

By adopting the CPR approach to laptop security, organizations can minimize the impact of computer theft, while complying with privacy regulations. Computrace helps ensure regulatory compliance by protecting data, tracking hardware and users, providing auditing capabilities and acting as a historical record of computer assets and their use.

  • Compliance – Complying with all applicable mobile data protection regulations, with an easily accessible audit trail
  • Protection – Protecting data on mobile computers includes encryption, strong authentication and the ability to remotely delete sensitive data on stolen computers
  • Recovery – Recovering lost or stolen notebook computers ensures that they are returned to the control of the organization and prosecution facilitated.

Find out how Computrace can help your organization comply with privacy regulations.

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