DATA LOSS PREVENTION for Massachusetts Data Protection Law 201 CMR 17.00

Massachusetts Data Protection Law 201 CMR 17.00

What is Massachusetts Data Protection Law 201 CMR 17.00?

Massachusetts Data Protection Law 201 CMR 17.00 requires businesses, engaged in commerce, to adopt written security polices and encrypt personal data, of any Massachusetts resident, stored or transmitted through the Internet or wirelessly.

The key to Massachusetts Data Protection Law 201 CMR 17.00 is that regardless of where your business is physically or operationally, if you handle or store the personal information of any Massachusetts resident, you are legally obligated to protect that information.

This is the first data privacy law that allows a court to impose a $5,000 civil penalty for each violation—if a ‘violation‘ is interpreted by a judge to mean the unauthorized access to a single individual’s personal information.

GTB’s Data Loss Prevention solutions provide comprehensive data loss prevention for any entity that must protect its valuable cyber assets.

Advantages include:

Detection Accuracy: GTB’s AccuMatch™ detection suite, recognized as having the highest accuracy in the industry .

Monitor and Prevent sensitive data usage – Network & Endpoint: GTB Technologies provides the ability to monitor and block data loss on ANY PROTOCOL (including email, IM, Web, Secure Web (HTTP over SSL), FTP, P2P, and generic TCP. Endpoint protection includes storage devices such as USB drives, CD/DVDs, etc.

Internal controls: GTB Technologies allows organizations to demonstrate internal controls are compliant.