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DEFINITION: CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) is a United States federal law that enables the government to intercept wire and electronic communications and call-identifying information under certain circumstances -- in particular, when it is necessary in order to protect national security. CALEA originated in the House of Representatives as bill H.R. 4922 and in the Senate as bill S. 2375. … Definition continues below.
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Achieving GLBA Compliance with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops sponsored by Red Hat WHITE PAPER: This paper will illustrate how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops can help organizations comply with specific GLBA mandates while increasing overall efficiency and agility. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Published: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| Records Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Management

Achieving HIPAA Compliance with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops sponsored by Red Hat WHITE PAPER: This paper will illustrate how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops can help organizations comply with specific HIPAA mandates, while at the same time increasing their overall efficiency and agility. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Published: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Desktop Virtualization Software \| Document Management \| Health Care Applications Software \| HIPAA \| HIPAA Compliance \| Open Source \| Privacy Rights \| Records Management

Bitpipe Industry Guide: Financial Services Industry sponsored by Bitpipe WHITE PAPER: The Financial Services Industry pervades the entire IT industry. This guide gets you up to speed on essential financial areas such as Regulatory Compliance, Business Continuity, Financial Reporting, and Financial Management. Posted: 22 Jan 2006 \| Published: 22 Jan 2006 TOPICS: Financial Applications Software \| Financial Management \| Financial Service Providers \| Financial Services \| Financial Services Industry \| Financial Systems \| Money Laundering \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Bitpipe Industry Guide: Government sponsored by Bitpipe WHITE PAPER: Are you up to date on Government policies, regulations and agencies? You need to be informed about government-related subject areas, including National, State and Local Governments and Government Agencies, Government Information Security, and Compliance. Posted: 13 Feb 2006 \| Published: 13 Feb 2006 TOPICS: eGovernment \| Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 \| Government Agencies (U.S.) \| Government Information Security \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| HIPAA \| Homeland Security \| Public Administration \| Public Sector \| Regulations \| Regulatory Compliance \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Bitpipe Industry Guide: Healthcare Industry sponsored by Bitpipe WHITE PAPER: Our Healthcare Industry page is the place to start if you need to stay up-to-date on related subject areas, such as Medical Hardware and Software, Telemedicine, and Biotechnology. Posted: 13 Feb 2006 \| Published: 13 Feb 2006 TOPICS: FDA \| FDA Compliance \| Health Care Applications Software \| Health Care Industry \| HIPAA \| HIPAA Compliance \| Medical Records Management \| Pharmaceutical Industry \| Telemedicine

Buyer’s Guide for Compliance Solutions sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This document presents an overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), and Health Insurance Portability & Accountability (HIPAA). It then translates these mandates into identity management requirements and challenges; defines and describes the reference model, and applies the reference model to the mandates. Posted: 13 Feb 2009 \| Published: 13 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Authentication \| Compliance (Finance) \| Endpoint Security \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| Group Policy \| HIPAA Compliance \| Password Authentication Protocol \| Remote Access Security \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Security Policies

Enabling Sustainable Compliance Management across the Organization sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the growing tide of data security standards and regulations and the need for a sustainable security compliance strategy. Posted: 22 Dec 2008 \| Published: 22 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Processes \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Audits \| Compliance Software \| Data Security \| Enterprise \| HIPAA

Extracting Value from Enterprise Log Data sponsored by ArcSight, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the drivers for log management as well as their underlying challenges and drive towards a common set of requirements for evaluation of log management tools. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Centers \| Databases \| HIPAA \| Log Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Troubleshooting \| Vendors

Get the Facts on Information Availability: Essential Data Protection, Recovery and Resiliency for Banks sponsored by Vision Solutions WHITE PAPER: The power of an information availability solution lies in its ability to transform any nonproductive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime. Posted: 09 May 2008 \| Published: 09 May 2008 TOPICS: Banking Industry \| Business Processes \| CRM \| Data Protection \| Data Recovery \| Downtime \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| High Availability \| Productivity \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

HIPAA and Beyond: How to Effectively Safeguard Electronic Protected Health Information sponsored by Lumension WHITE PAPER: Learn how to go beyond HIPAA by showing how to use HIPAA as the starting point for your security program, and then using best practices and Lumension solutions to improve your overall security posture. Posted: 15 Aug 2008 \| Published: 15 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Auditing \| Data Centers \| Data Governance \| Health Care Applications Software \| Health Care Industry \| HIPAA \| Risk Assessment \| Security Policies

How to ensure data privacy compliance in the application testing environment sponsored by Compuware Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses a five-step best practices approach to implementing a cost-effective and timely data privacy solution. It also details a brief case study illustrating how Compuware’s combination of tools, technology, best practices and customized services can save time and money. Posted: 20 Oct 2009 \| Published: 20 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Performance Management \| Business Processes \| Compliance (Finance) \| Data Modeling \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| HIPAA Compliance

Mining the Cloud to Ease the Enterprise Compliance Burden sponsored by VeriSign, Inc WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at some common regulations (SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, Basel II, and NERC) and presents the argument for in-the-cloud authentication as the most advantageous response to access control related requirements. It also presents a practical solution for complying with these regulations. Posted: 22 Oct 2009 \| Published: 22 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Access Control \| Authentication \| Authorization \| Basel II \| Cloud Computing \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| HIPAA \| Identity Management Software \| Regulatory Compliance \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

*Reduce the Cost to Achieving HIPAA Security Compliance with Lumension® Solutions* sponsored by Lumension WHITE PAPER: Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online. Lumension helps organizations address these compliance challenges by providing the proactive IT risk management and the required audit readiness to meet many aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule. Posted: 19 Oct 2009 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Audits \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Health Care Applications Software \| HIPAA \| HIPAA Compliance \| Information Management Software \| Medical Records Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Management

Seven Practical Steps for Federal Cyber Security and FISMA Compliance sponsored by Tripwire, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper provides seven practical steps any information security organization can take to improve information system security and achieve compliance with relevant regulations, standards and internal security and operational policy. Posted: 05 Oct 2009 \| Published: 05 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Audits \| Configuration Management \| Cybersecurity \| Cyberterrorism \| Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 \| Information Security \| Security Policies

Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs sponsored by Tripwire, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To successfully sustain compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Check out this white paper to learn how Tripwire solutions enable organizations to achieve and sustain SOX compliance. Posted: 08 Jan 2009 \| Published: 08 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Business Processes \| CobiT \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Corporate Governance \| Information Security \| Risk Management \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Whitepaper: Roadmap to Effective eGovernment sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: This detailed handbook covers four stages – from paper-based dependency to the achievement of connected government. A best-practices roadmap will offer you the ideal strategy for your current information infrastructure. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: eGovernment \| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) \| Government Information Security \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| Information Management \| Information Standards \| Information Storage and Retrieval Systems \| Records Management \| Regulatory Compliance

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FEDERAL LAW DEFINITION (continued): … CALEA was signed into law by President Clinton on October 25, 1994. There are certain exceptions and prohibitions that limit the extent and applicability of CALEA. These limitations are intended to protect private citizens and communications providers from unreasonable government intrusion. For example, carriers are not responsible for decrypting (or ensuring the government's ability to decrypt) any communication encrypted by a subscriber, unless the carrier provides the encryption method and has the knowledge necessary to decrypt the signals. In addition, CALEA does not authorize law enforcement …
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