DEFINITION:
California Breach Disclosure Act (CA 1798.82), also known as SB 1386, requires State Agencies and private businesses to report cybersecurity breaches that may have compromised confidential information.
CHALLENGE:
Organizations who fail to comply with CA 1798.82 face civil or class action lawsuits. The law covers not just California-based agencies but all private enterprises doing business in California. The law requires that California customers be notified if any unauthorized individuals have acquired their personal and/or financial information, thereby giving them the opportunity to take proactive steps to ensure that they do not become victims of identity theft.
To minimize exposure to CA 1789.82, organizations should ensure that data privacy and integrity is enforced throughout the enterprise. Organizations that do not apply generally accepted security and detection best practices may be considered criminally negligent by State and Federal law. Becoming compliant with CA 1789.82 is not a one-time event, but rather a process that requires continuous measurement and management of network risks.
SOLUTION:
Qualys® helps organizations ensure data privacy by providing a security framework to measure, manage and mitigate network security risks. Qualys' on demand vulnerability management solution, QualysGuard®, enables IT departments to eliminate network weakness through the proactive detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities.
Using QualysGuard, organizations identify and correct weaknesses before intruders penetrate the network. Qualys also provides executive and technical-level reports to measure and document ongoing compliance efforts to minimize exposure to cybersecurity breaches.
