Compliance & Regulations

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Compliance & Regulations

How does Compliance & Regulations affect the University?
Federal and State Regulations affect how data should be secured. University departments are responsible for the security, confidentiality and integrity of data covered by legislation that if unsecured, could result in unauthorized disclosure, misuse, alteration, destruction or other compromise.

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Here is a list of Federal and State regulations:

HIPAA
FERPA
GLBA
Sarbanes-Oxley
NC Identity Theft Protection Act

FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education.

GLBA

The Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) requires financial institutions, including colleges and universities, to develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive written information security program that contains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the size and complexity of the institution, the nature and scope of its activities, and the sensitivity of any customer-information issue. The scope of this act covers primarily financial institutions but also organizations containing financial functions such as colleges and universities.

Sarbanes-Oxley

At the core of this act is the growing realization among executives that information security is crucial to compliance. Information security must secure the data on which many internal controls depend. Protecting financial information requires everyone to practice good security controls. Click here to read about this federal law

NC Identity Theft Act:

North Carolina passed the Identify Theft Protection Act of 2005 in December 2005. Although this act is focused on protecting financial information, it addresses the protection of personal information that can be used to gain access that information. Due to this fact, the university falls under this legislation.

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