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Accellion data privacy and data security

Content Visibility and Its Role in Demonstrating Compliance

by Izak Bovee February 15, 2018March 12, 2019 | Accellion News

Is your organization’s data secure? If so, can you clearly demonstrate your security practices to auditors? Data privacy and data security is very important. In our previous posts, we identified...

Understand and Achieve GDPR Compliance

by Robert Dougherty January 29, 2018November 7, 2018 | Compliance

The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was developed to bring legal unification and clarity to the protection of EU citizens’ personal data. Many organizations, however, are unaware of how...

FedRAMP for the Private Sector: Accellion’s FedRAMP Authorized Solution Benefits Commercial Businesses, Too

by Robert Dougherty December 19, 2017November 8, 2018 | Accellion News

FedRAMP for the private sector enables commercial business to take advantage of cloud solutions that the U.S. Federal Government has certified to provide rigorous security controls, as this post explains....

Secure File Sharing in Banking Amid Industry Disruption: New Model, New Challenges

by Bob Ertl July 18, 2017November 8, 2018 | Financial Services

Significant disruption in the banking industry is forcing traditional banks to rethink how they provide services to consumers. Inevitably, secure file sharing in banking must also be revisited. Since the...

Achieve GDPR Compliance to Comply With EU’s New Data Privacy Law

by Robert Dougherty February 17, 2017November 7, 2018 | Compliance

GDPR Compliance is going to be an ongoing challenge for IT organizations around the world. What is the GDPR, and why is GDPR compliance so important? We live in a...

CJIS Compliance Through Secure File Sharing for Mobile, Cloud-based IT

by Izak Bovee January 15, 2017May 30, 2019 | Compliance

New mobile and cloud technologies present law enforcement with new opportunities to capture and communicate Criminal Justice Information (CJI), potentially speeding investigations, building better cases, and demonstrating CJIS compliance. By...

Healthcare Data Breaches Are Common, Putting Patient Data and HIPAA Compliance at Risk

by Cliff White October 11, 2016November 27, 2018 | Cyber Security

Healthcare data breaches, and HIPAA compliance violations from those data breaches, are increasingly common. That’s one of the stark conclusions from the Ponemon Institute’s sixth annual study on the state of security...

FedRAMP Compliant File Sharing for Federal Agencies

by Izak Bovee May 4, 2016May 17, 2019 | Compliance

Update: the Accellion platform became FedRAMP-Authorized in June 2017. To learn more about Accellion and FedRAMP compliant file sharing, please visit our FedRAMP page. The Accellion secure file sharing and...

The 3 New Rules for Data Sovereignty: Location, location, location

by Bob Ertl December 7, 2015November 8, 2018 | Compliance

Real estate isn’t the only kind of business where location matters. Since Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the U.S. government’s spying on private citizens, data localization or data sovereignty has been...

Lost and Stolen Mobile Devices Are Leading Cause of Healthcare Data Breaches

by Cliff White February 23, 2015November 27, 2018 | Cyber Security

A lost or stolen laptop, tablet, or smartphone can complicate a healthcare data breach, as a recent story from Texas makes clear. The thief who burglarized the headquarters of Sunglo Health...

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