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Eight principles are identified and explained to help CIOs achieve compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Final Security Rule, which was published in Feb 2003.

Columbia P rof Emeritus of Public Law and Government Alan Westin talks about business' need for information privacy and about the broader social concerns having to do with individuals' right to privacy.

How new requirements mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is impacting information technology (IT) is described and discussed.

The entertainment industry, represented by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is battling to prevent piracy of copyrighted music and movies files. Implications for CIOs' management of enterprise networks are discussed.

How antiterrorism laws, such as the Patriot Act of 2001, will impact businesses is considered. What a chief information officer (CIO) should do to protect an organization from litigation and/or bad publicity is discussed.

The E-Government Act of 2002 aims to enable the federal government to take full advantage of the Internet and other information technologies. Privacy remains a concern of many.

How chief information officers (CIO) can prepare for effects of new security regulations is discussed. The focus is on the health care industry.

The emerging field of computer forensics is appropriate for purposes ranging from tracking down hackers to reconstructing destroyed records in investigations such as the current one involving Enron. Companies that publish forensics tools include AccessData, Guidance Software, and New Technologies Armor, and new techniques are being developed at security-consultant organizations and university labs.

Taming the compliance monster begins at the top, but it doesn't end there. Management must build momentum and sustain it at all levels of an agency. 'To a great extent, […]

The tests for determining the level of skill in the art of a software engineer are discussed. A comparison of the application of the level skill of the software art legal tests to the business method invention in State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. is given.

The War On Terrorism involves CIOs, who need to strengthen their companies' IT infrastructures. Government actions since the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001, are discussed, with the focus on the impact on business.

IT-related litigation, whether a company is suing or being sued, represents a failure on the part of the CIO. CIOs need to cultivate an understanding of how litigation can harm their position in a company. Potential litigious situations need to be identified and dealt with before they develop.

Everyone is familiar with the game where a message is whispered to one person who then passes the message on to the next, one at a time, until everyone in […]

Several years after federal agencies began individually building enterprise architectures to comply with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, the Office of Management and Budget is gradually rolling out a mandatory […]

The U.S. legal system last week made good on its promise to get stricter in compelling companies to produce electronically stored information as evidence in civil court cases. As of […]

CIOs with extra time on their hands can thank the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations, an umbrella group of accounting and auditing firms. On Tuesday, the group--known as COSO--unveiled its Enterprise […]

Practical guidelines for building effective IT user/supplier partnerships have been issued by the Office of Government Commerce. In a separate move, IT suppliers' organisation Intellect has come up with 10 […]

Antony Savvas computer.weekly@rbi.co.uk IT workers will be spending less time tinkering with servers and Linux kernels in 2004 if the Department for Trade & Industry makes progress with its work/life […]

A proposed public-private partnership between IT workers in the federal government and the private sector could help corporations cut through the red tape of federal contracts and give them a […]

As congress continued last week to hash out the details of legislation creating a Department of Homeland Security, securing cyberspace took on an increasingly high profile in the debate. While […]

Bill Goodwin The majority of IT professionals believe that the UK's computer crime laws are failing to protect businesses from a rising tide of computer crime. In a survey of […]

Bill Goodwin The Government has begun a review of the Computer Misuse Act, acting on concerns that UK law contains loopholes that make it difficult for the police to prosecute […]

The Federal Information Technology Workforce and Acquisition Improvement Act, sponsored in the House by Rep Tom Davis (R-VA) and Rep Dan Burton (R-IN), and in the Senate by Sen George Voinovich (R-OH), was passed by the House in late Mar 2002. The bill would establish an exchange program between the federal government and the private sector to encourage development of IT expertise.

Daniel Thomas Companies may have to store employee information indefinitely after a new Information Commission code on computerised employee records becomes law later this year. Under the code, which is […]

Bill Goodwin An influential IT lobbying group is urging the Government to take urgent steps to update UK laws to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to tackle computer-related […]

WITH SOME EXPERTS calling for changes to immigration policy and enforcement as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, some attorneys say H-1B practices also must change. Attorney Rebekah […]

The Justice Department has banned contractors from using foreign nationals on projects involving the department's information technology systems unless the workers are granted waivers by the agency. In an order […]

A bill introduced this month by Rep. Amo Houghton, R-N.Y., would exclude the difference between the exercise price, and the fair market value of stock offered through incentive stock options […]

The criteria for success in federal E-Government is increasingly all about meeting capital planning and IT investment directives. IN 1999 THE GARTNERGROUP PREDICTED THAT 75 percent of all e-business projects […]

THE head of the Government's newly formed High-Tech Crime Unit has urged the UK to update its criminal laws to take into account the growing number of crimes committed over […]

UK take-up of the European Computer Driving Licence qualification for end-user skills is increasing with 42,000 people signing up for courses in the last three months alone. The UK accounts […]