BrightCloud Web Filtering Services Legal Liability and Compliance Benefits

Integrating BrightCloud Web Filtering Services into an OEM security solution can help mitigate Legal Liability issues as well as supplement the OEM's compliance solution.

Legal Liability

The internet provides access to an incredibly broad set of content. Much of that content can be very valuable and useful for employees. However, there is also content on the internet that is inappropriate for employees, such as:

• Pornography
• Peer-to-peer file sharing
• Violent or hate based sites

While some employees may not be bothered by these types of content, others may. Also, enterprises can be exposed to storing copyrighted but unlicensed content on their servers. Permitting access to these types of sites, or other sites of questionable content, may expose the enterprise to legal liability issues.

Compliance

As the internet has grown into an increasingly valuable tool for the enterprise, the threats to the enterprise data assets has increased in proportion. There have been many well publicized- and successful- attacks. In response, not only have corporations recognized the need to address their internal assets, but regulatory bodies have stepped in as well. The list of compliance regulations is long:

California Breach Disclosure Act
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB)
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

Often, the regulations require implementation of appropriate information management tools to comply.

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BrightCloud Web Filtering Services can help address an OEM address Legal Liability and Compliance issues

OEMs have recognized the need on behalf of their customers to address Legal Liability and Compliance issues, and have implemented reporting systems and other tools. BrightCloud can play an integral role in this capacity as well. The BrightCloud Service can not only aid compliance and decrease legal liability with some of the more prominent information security regulations, but adds a critical security layer to the OEM's solution.

Some of the regulations that BrightCloud helps OEM's end customers meet include:

California Breach Disclosure Act

Effective July 1, 2003, the California Breach Disclosure Act (California Civil Code Section 1798.82) mandates that companies that do business in California or have customers in California notify customers whenever there is a known - or simply suspected - unauthorized distribution of their personal information.

BrightCloud Services add a key security layer to OEM enterprise security solutions that can help mitigate the risk of internet security breaches.

Information on how BrightCloud Services can be integrated with an OEM solution can be found here:
BrightCloud Web Filtering Services

The full text of the act may be found at:
http://www.privacy.ca.gov/code/cc1798.291798.82.htm#two

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Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted in 1996. It was designed in part to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system by establishing national standards for electronic health care transactions that are currently carried out manually on paper. There are also provisions in HIPAA that require health care organizations to adopt privacy and security protections for individually identifiable health information.

BrightCloud Services can contribute to an OEM's HIPAA Compliance solutions by mitigating the risk of internet security breaches.

Information on how BrightCloud Services can be integrated with an OEM solution can be found:
BrightCloud Web Filtering Services

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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

The Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), is another regulation designed to protect non-public customer data. Section 501 of GLBA requires that an "information security program" be implemented and enforced by financial services firms. It is therefore important that financial institutions be able to monitor and track any electronic information passing through their communications systems as an integral part of IT security.

BrightCloud Services in concert with an OEM solution can help financial institutions comply with GLBA by increasing security from web-based threats to protect against unauthorized access to sensitive information.

Information on how BrightCloud Services can be integrated with an OEM solution can be found:
BrightCloud Web Filtering Services

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Children'S Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress in December 2000 to address concerns about access in schools and libraries to the Internet and other information. In an effort to protect children from inappropriate internet content, CIPA requires libraries and schools to install web filters in order to retain federal funding and discounts for computers and computer access.

BrightCloud offers web filtering software that is CIPA compliant, and can be a valuable addition to an OEM solution.

Information on how BrightCloud Services can be integrated with an OEM solution can be found:
BrightCloud Web Filtering Services

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is a US compliance legislation, signed in 2002. The stated purpose of the Act is "to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the security laws, and for other purposes." Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires the CEO and CFO of publicly traded companies to certify the effectiveness of their organization's internal controls as they relate to the accuracy of financial information.

BrightCloud can enhance an OEM end customer solution by providing a key layer of internet security enforcement and reporting.

Information on how BrightCloud Services can be integrated with an OEM solution can be found:
BrightCloud Web Filtering Services

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