As educational institutions were involved with over 30% of reported data breaches in 2006 alone, the need to achieve data leak prevention is a top priority.
Educational institutions are always under tough scrutiny when it comes to safeguarding sensitive student and faculty data. Educational institutions have recently become a large target for information and identity theft as we continue to see in the news. This is because the educational sector is home to massive amounts of detailed personal information. The need to safeguard this information becomes imminent when you realize the fact that 30 percent of all reported data breaches in 2006 involved educational institutions.
The Simple Encryption Platform was designed to give you the ability to achieve information security compliance by utilizing a modules-based platform. With SEP, you can start small and grow your IT-security infrastructure as the need arises, eliminating the need to purchase a giant system which you don't know whether you need or not.
California Senate Bill 1386 (CA SB 1386), requires general protection of an individual’s private information, and it is recommended that you implement
Content filtering & Content detection, encryption solutions, access controls and endpoint management as well as other
reasonable security controls.
This regulation applies to the USA, California.
