Rapid Growth in Data Protection Mandates

The number of data protection laws is increasing rapidly around the world. In the United States, laws enacted at the federal level, such as Gramm, Leach, Bliley, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the Health Insurance and Portability Act (HIPAA) are perhaps best known.

A growing number of states are now enacting their own laws. Led by California, some 38 states now require businesses to notify customers whenever their electronic data is lost or stolen. The next wave of mandates will require businesses to become more proactive in protecting personal information from loss or misuse.

• A new Connecticut law requires the protection of personal information from abuse by third parties.
• Michigan and Washington are drafting laws that require encryption of customer data before it is emailed or otherwise transmitted. Nevada is the first with a mandatory encryption law that went into effect on October 1, 2008.

How Fortressware Helps Businesses Comply

Is this your scenario? You keep track of your customers in a spreadsheet, including sensitive information such as social security and driver's license numbers. You email the spreadsheet file to an accountant, a partner, a service provider, etc.

If you’re doing business in Nevada, you now have to ensure that the spreadsheet is encrypted before you email it. If you do business elsewhere, it's likely you'll soon face similar or more far reaching requirements to protect your customer data as you use it, distribute it, and ultimately dispose of it.

Personal Fortress is the only product that protects your customers against data theft and brings you into compliance with the new laws - without more effort from you! Personal Fortress is a simple, but comprehensive solution for keeping your Microsoft and Adobe pdf files secure, with no configuration or IT support required. Encryption is automatic and transparent; you don't need to know anything about encryption or take any extra steps to encrypt your files. Decryption is just as straightforward for the recipient of your files.

Best of all, Personal Fortress is available at no charge during our open beta period.

And Personal Fortress gives you something more: continuing control of your files once they've been received and stored on a recipient's disk! It prevents your proprietary or confidential business information from leaking to people not intended by you after it's been decrypted. For example: Personal Fortress blocks a recipient of a spreadsheet from copying, printing, or otherwise spreading its contents beyond your control. This is NOT something any other encryption tool is able to give you because of Personal Fortress' patent pending anti-propagation technology. Fortressware's encryption + anti-propagation advantage keeps you in control, even of files that have left your business site.

With Fortressware, it is easy to stay compliant and protect your data assets.

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