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By SearchStorage.com Staff
26 Jan 2006 | SearchStorage.com

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When it comes to data compliance, you better have your "acts" together or there could be some hefty fines coming your way. Challenge your co-workers, take our quiz and see who knows what about data compliance. Knowing about these regulations and organizations could save your shop big bucks and big headaches.

1. This legislation was enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise.
What is it?

2. This is a corporate official in charge of overseeing and managing compliance issues within an organization, ensuring, for example, that a company is complying with regulatory requirements, and that the company and its employees are complying with internal policies and procedures.
What is it?

3. This is an amendment to the U.S. Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and a federal law mandating that all electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained or used by the federal government be accessible to people with disabilities.
What is it?

4. This is a U.S. government organization within the National Security Agency that evaluates computing equipment for high-security applications to ensure that facilities processing classified or other sensitive material are using trusted computer systems and components.
What is it?

5. This U.S. Senate bill would require any company holding personal data on more than 10,000 Americans to implement privacy and security policies.
What is it?

6. This is the primary organization for fostering the development of technology standards in the U.S. It works with industry groups and is the U.S. member of the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission.
What is it?

7. This act deals with protecting health insurance coverage for people who lose or change jobs. It includes an administrative simplification section that deals with the standardization of healthcare-related information systems.
What is it?

8. This is the commonly used name for the U.S. federal law more formally known as S. 877 or the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003." The law took effect on Jan. 1, 2004.
What is it?

9. This is a nonprofit organization that establishes telecommunications standards for Europe. Its guidelines are voluntary and almost always comply with standards produced by international bodies.
What is it?

10. If this U.S. Senate bill passes into law, it will be the first major step toward a national electronic health system.
What is it?


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