Form security is important because it is peoples’ information and can be very sensitive. If an unauthorized person gets those details, it could end in trouble for the company and the person. Personally identifiable information is info that can identify an individual such as SSN’s and names. HIPAA is the federal wall that helps protect sensitive patient health info from being disclosed without their consent. The family educational rights and privacy act is a federal law that governs the access to educational info and records. PCI keeps credit card info safe when people enter it on a website.
Protecting PII is important because it can prevent identity theft. If someone gets access to another person’s social security number and name, that information can be used to steal someone’s identity. Some ways to protect PII are using HTTPS, using encryption and not retaining data.
The key requirements of HIPAA compliance are privacy, security, enforcement, breach notification and omnibus. Privacy means that patients have the right to protected health info. Security keeps Phi safe in physical, technical and administrative ways. Enforcement means that any security breach will be investigated. Breach notification is how people are notified when a security breach happens.
FERPA gives parents the right to access their children’s educational records and the right to have some control of the disclosure of PII from their child’s educational records. It protects the students education records from getting out to people who are not supposed to have the information.
PCI SSC standards help to protect card holder data they are standards that any business who stores processes or transmits card holder data has to follow. It helps protect credit card fraud and the probability for someone to get their info.
In conclusion these policies help to secure and protect sensitive and important information that should not be accessed by anyone except the person that it links to. If their info gets stolen then it may not be good for everyone involved in the case. I think these are good and important for everything or else everyone’s info will get stolen.