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ALSO CALLED: Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, USA-PATRIOT, Terrorism Act of 2001, USAPA, Patriot Act DEFINITION: The Patriot Act (the full name is the USA Patriot Act, or "Unitingand Strengthening America Act by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001") was enacted by the U.S. Congress on October 26, 2001, at the request of President George Bush in response to the terrorist acts of September 11. It gives controversial new powers to the Justice Department in terms … Definition continues below.
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2010 E-discovery Best Practices from Real-World Cases sponsored by Clearwell Systems WHITE PAPER: This paper details several best practices derived from real-world cases and explains how Clearwell customers have met their e-discovery challenges and achieved a significant return on investment (ROI) -- often within a single case. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Published: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Electronic Discovery \| Electronic Discovery Software \| Information Management \| Information Management Software \| Information Retrieval Software \| Information Storage and Retrieval Systems \| Records Management \| Records Management Software \| Records Retention \| Regulations \| Regulatory Compliance

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 North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Cyber Security Standards sponsored by Lumension WHITE PAPER: Learn about NERC compliance challenges and how to ensure audit-readiness by delivering end-to-end vulnerability management, endpoint protection and data protection solutions. Posted: 06 Apr 2009 \| Published: 06 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Audits \| Data Encryption Standard \| Endpoint Security \| Information Security \| Malware \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security \| Security Software \| Virus Protection \| Vulnerability Assessments

Alliance All-Ways Secure with PGP® Encryption Solution Brief sponsored by Patrick Townsend Security Solutions WHITE PAPER: IBM System i customers need to meet regulatory requirements to secure the transfer of data over the Internet and on internal networks. Alliance All-Ways Secure provides strong PGP Command Line 9 encryption, secure FTP, and Secure Shell (SSH) sFTP transfer support to meet these regulations. Posted: 17 Sep 2009 \| Published: 17 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Encryption \| Data Encryption Software \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| File Transfer Protocols \| Regulatory Compliance \| System i

Authentication in the Enterprise: Current and Changing Requirements sponsored by PistolStar, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the current state of authentication and trends that Osterman Research sees as shaping the future of authentication. Posted: 25 Aug 2009 \| Published: 25 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Access Control \| Auditing (Finance) \| Authentication \| Authorization \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Security \| Email Security \| Endpoint Security \| Hackers \| IT Infrastructure \| Password Authentication Protocol \| Password Management \| Regulatory Compliance

Automate Virtualization in Your Data Center - EMA Analyst Report sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This EMA white paper addresses the challenges of a complex multi-tier environment. It highlights specific examples of how virtualization provides measurable ROI, looks at the challenges for data center management that virtualization introduces, and most importantly, it provides specific and actionable recommendations for managing virtual systems. Posted: 17 Feb 2009 \| Published: 17 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Data Center Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Enterprise Systems \| High Availability \| IT Service Management \| Network Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| ROI

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

Business Critical Cloud Storage: Best Practices for Archiving Customer Data sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital WHITE PAPER: Profiled in this whitepaper are two examples of ISVs that have turned to Iron Mountain's Archive Services Platform API solution to help their customers better manage their data. Read this Whitepaper from Iron Mountain to learn more. Posted: 15 Oct 2009 \| Published: 15 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Hybrid clouds \| Information Management \| Information Storage and Retrieval Systems \| Private cloud computing \| Public cloud computing \| Regulations \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Closing Wireless Loopholes for PCI Compliance and Security sponsored by AirMagnet, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Merchants who process payment cards need dedicated wireless monitoring systems that offer full traffic analysis and comprehensive security solutions to identify wireless security loopholes, provide solutions, and document compliance for audits. Read this white paper to learn more about ensuring PCI compliance in your wireless network. Posted: 02 Dec 2009 \| Published: 02 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Information Security \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security \| Security Management \| Wireless Networks \| Wireless Security

Control Your Email Environment with these 11 Tips sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital WHITE PAPER: The handling of email has become a critical business, IT and regulatory issue, driving a need for email archiving solutions in many organizations. This whitepaper will cover archiving and email management, eDiscovery and knowledge management. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Electronic Discovery \| Email \| Email Archiving \| Email Management \| Email Security \| Email Security Policies \| Knowledge Management \| Messaging Security \| Regulatory Compliance

Controlling Costs and Driving Agility in the Datacenter: Optimizing Server Infrastructure with Microsoft System Center sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd WHITE PAPER: To help control costs, improve business agility, and remain secure and in compliance, many IT organizations are taking steps to transition to a truly dynamic infrastructure. Microsoft® System Center is a family of leading IT management solutions that helps IT departments proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize an IT environment. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 \| Published: 23 Nov 2009 TOPICS: IT Asset Management \| IT Governance \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| IT Systems \| Regulatory Compliance \| Server Management

Critical Technologies for Compliance and Risk Management sponsored by Siperian, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Smart decision-makers are seeking technology investments -- such as Master Data Management -- to help establish good governance models that will help with regulatory compliance and lower their operational risk. Posted: 16 Sep 2009 \| Published: 16 Sep 2009 TOPICS: CIOs \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Data Classification \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Storage \| Data Visualization \| Master Data Management \| Regulations \| Regulatory Compliance

Data Loss Prevention 2.0: Preventing the loss of confidential information via webmail, Facebook, wikis and blogs sponsored by Code Green Networks, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In today’s technology rich environment organizations are finding employees often post sensitive company information to insecure or public Internet sites using Web 2.0 applications. Code Green Networks TrueDLP provides organizations with a complete data loss prevention solution to stop the loss or theft of confidential or proprietary information. Posted: 09 Nov 2009 \| Published: 09 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Security \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security \| Security Management

Data privacy best practices: time to take action! sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project. Find out how you can help your organization implement best practices in privacy protection and make your privacy project successful from start to finish. Posted: 04 Sep 2009 \| Published: 04 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Enterprise Content Management \| Information Management \| Intrusion Prevention \| Quality Control \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Management \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management

Doing More with Less: Automating IT Services in Your Midsize Business sponsored by N-able Technologies WHITE PAPER: Driven by mounting compliance, security, globalization and competition issues, IT Professionals in midsize businesses are under heavy pressure to increase efficiencies and work within tighter budgets. Services automation is a proven way for addressing these challenges. Posted: 02 Dec 2009 \| Published: 02 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Business Management \| Business Process Automation Software \| Globalization \| IT Service Management \| IT Services \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security \| SMBs

Email Archiving: Mitigate Risk - Managing Compliance, eDiscovery, and Records Requests sponsored by Mirapoint Software, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Learn the importance of email archiving and how it can help solve the many challenges facing organizations today with compliance, continuity in business knowledge, data retention policies and requests for electronic discovery. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Security \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| Email Management \| Email Server Software \| Messaging Security \| Regulatory Compliance \| SLA

Email Archiving: Understanding the Reasons, Risks and Rewards sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Regulatory compliance, legal discovery and storage management issues are driving more organizations to consider email archiving. Here's what you should know when making decisions about your organization's use of email archiving technology. Posted: 17 Nov 2009 \| Published: 17 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| Instant Messaging \| Knowledge Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Management

Email As Evidence: 12 Steps To Ensuring Good Evidential Quality Of Email sponsored by Mimecast WHITE PAPER: Infrastructures of potentially dozens of servers have built up around corporate email servers to provide better governance, reduced risk and improved legislative compliance - anti-virus, anti-spam, attachment handling, encryption, disclaimers, archiving and hot-standby mail servers to name a few. Posted: 06 Aug 2009 \| Published: 06 Aug 2009 TOPICS: Data Quality \| Email Archiving \| Email Management \| Email Management Software \| Email Security \| Email Server Software \| High Availability \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

Email Security: Magic Quadrant for Email Security Boundaries, 2008 sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The email security market is maturing, but speed and breadth of spam detection, and management and reporting capabilities, continue to differentiate vendors. This paper will discuss what you need to know about spam filtering, outbound content filtering, and available email security solutions in various delivery models. Posted: 22 Oct 2009 \| Published: 22 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Anti-Spam Software \| Data Encryption \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Email Management \| Email Security Software \| Intrusion Prevention \| Regulatory Compliance \| Reporting Software

Embracing the Cloud: Top Seven Imperatives for an Organization sponsored by Wipro Technologies WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the impact of the cloud on the IT Ecosystem and provides answers to what an organization needs to do in embracing a right cloud strategy. Posted: 12 Jun 2009 \| Published: 12 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Continuity Planning \| CIOs \| Cloud Computing \| Competition \| Data Center Management \| Economic Environment \| IT Managers \| IT Services \| Regulatory Compliance \| Web Services

Ensuring Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Security Within U.S. Government Agencies sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) and remaining in compliance with government regulations is a difficult challenge made easier with database tools from Embarcadero Technologies. Posted: 27 Mar 2009 \| Published: 27 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Change Management \| Database Management \| Database Management Software \| Database Security \| Documentation \| Personal Information Management Software \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security Standards \| SQL Server \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Management Software

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

First Class Protection for the Mid-Size Organization: Control Your Network with an Out of Box Solution sponsored by ArcSight, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how ArcSight Express can help mid-size organizations better face the numerous security and compliance challenges they confront today. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Malware \| Network Monitoring \| Network Security \| Network Security Appliances \| Regulatory Compliance \| Security Management \| Security Spending \| Security Threats

Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle Identity Manager is an enterprise identity management system that manages users' access right and privileges, throughout the provisioning life-cycle, within enterprise IT resources. Posted: 19 Jan 2009 \| Published: 19 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Access Control \| Identity Management \| Password Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Management

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USA PATRIOT ACT DEFINITION (continued): … of domestic and international surveillance of American citizens and others within its jurisdiction. According to its sponsors, the Act was needed to address a situation that had not existed before - the presence of terrorists within national borders - and the need to apprehend and prosecute them, hopefully before rather than after they acted. Opponents of the Act, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, say that the Act has undone previous checks on civil liberty abuses of the past and unnecessarily endangers privacy and discourages free speech.Among …
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