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A Legal Persepective on the Information Infrastructure

Mitch Dembin, CEO, EvidentData, Inc.

Those who design and implement information infrastructures must account for the current trends in the law to require "reasonable" security measures to protect data considered by the owner to be confidential or deemed by the government to be confidential. As we say, ignorance of the law does not excuse non-compliance. It costs a lot more to retrofit than to build in the necessary standards and provide for flexibility today. An appropriate blend of good policies, tested and enforced, and technical solutions designed to prevent and detect issues, along with a reasonable response plan are necessary. This discussion will focus on current legal trends; how we got here and where we likely are going.

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