Chapter 22

The Government Gets Involved

Abstract

Government involvement in businesses has an impact on application software and how it is used. Several levels of government, federal, state, and local can affect your organization. The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has had a significant impact on publicly traded corporations.

Key Words

government; regulations; multiple levels of government; federal; state; local; government agencies; SOX; audits; HIPPA; privacy; PCI DSS; disclosure after data is lost; discovery; data retention

Like it or not, the government has an impact on your organization and very likely on the applications you support. The specific effect may be that you provide data to a government body, you receive information from a government ...

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