customized professional cost effective information security policies
affordable and customized information security policies
 

Oregon SB583 - Oregon Identity Theft Protection Act

For a reason to buy Information Security policies, it is hard to beat an excerpt directly from the law itself:

Any person that owns, maintains or otherwise possesses data that includes a consumer's personal information that is used in the course of the person's business, vocation, occupation or volunteer activities must develop, implement and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of the personal information, including disposal of the data.

To read through the new law for yourself, please click here.

oregon identity theft protection act compliance
oregon id theft law

[download brochure]

The State of Oregon adopted a strict Information Security law, which became effective on January 1, 2008. The law is broken up into four sections (please read the requirements of those two sections below).

iSecurityPolicy.com’s Written Information Security Program (WISP) meets ALL of the requirements of the Oregon Identity Theft Protection ACt (OITPA) (SB583). As an Oregon business, we were at the forefront of this law, assisting businesses and organizations become compliant so that they would not face devastating fines from being non-compliant. Click here to read more about the WISP and what it contains.

SecurityFreeze
All Oregonians will be able to place a security freeze on their credit file maintained by a credit reporting agency, such as Equifax, Experian, or TransUnion.

BreachNotification
Anyone (business, organization, or individual) who maintains personal information of Oregon consumers will be required to notify his or her customers if computer files containing that personal information have been subject to a security breach.

ProtectSSNs
The law prohibits anyone from printing Social Security numbers on cards or documents or publicly displaying or posting a Social Security number. This doesn't apply to the use of SSNs for internal verification purposes. The law allows an exception for records that are required by law to be made available to the public or filed with courts.

SafeguardPII
If you collect personal information from an individual, such as driver's license numbers or Social Security numbers, you must develop, implement and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of the information. This also includes the proper disposal of information.

Every person that owns, licenses, stores or maintains personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth and electronically stores or transmits such information shall include in its written, comprehensive information security program the establishment and maintenance of a security system covering its computers, including any wireless system, that, at a minimum, shall have the following elements:

The following shall be deemed in compliance:

Section A:

  1. A person that complies with a state or federal law providing greater protection to personal information than that provided by this section.
  2. A person that is subject to and complies with regulations promulgated pursuant to Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (15 U.S.C. 6801 to 6809) as that Act existed on the effective date of this 2007 Act.
  3. A person that is subject to and complies with regulations implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (45 C.F.R. parts 160 and 164) as that Act existed on the effective date of this 2007 Act.
  4. A person that implements an information security program that includes the following administrative safeguards such as the following, in which the person:
    • (i) Designates one or more employees to coordinate the security program;
    • (ii) Identifies reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks;
    • (iii) Assesses the sufficiency of safeguards in place to control the identified risks;
    • (iv) Trains and manages employees in the security program practices and procedures;
    • (v) Selects service providers capable of maintaining appropriate safeguards, and requires those safeguards by contract; and
    • (vi) Adjusts the security program in light of business changes or new circumstances;

Section B:

  1. Technical safeguards such as the following, in which the person:
    • (i) Assesses risks in network and software design;
    • (ii) Assesses risks in information processing, transmission and storage;
    • (iii) Detects, prevents and responds to attacks or system failures; and
    • (iv) Regularly tests and monitors the effectiveness of key controls, systems and procedures; and
  2. Physical safeguards such as the following, in which the person:
    • (i) Assesses risks of information storage and disposal;
    • (ii) Detects, prevents and responds to intrusions;
    • (iii) Protects against unauthorized access to or use of personal information during or after the collection, transportation and destruction or disposal of the information; and
    • (iv) Disposes of personal information after it is no longer needed for business purposes or as required by local, state or federal law by burning, pulverizing, shredding or modifying a physical record and by destroying or erasing electronic media so that the information cannot be read or reconstructed.

.

As an Oregon business ourselves, BlackHat Consultants is an expert in the Oregon Identity Theft Protection Act (OITPA). We can work with your business to become compliant and stay compliant with this law!

secure online purchase
disabled veteran business
veteran owned business
[Home] [Products] [Examples] [FAQs] [Reasons To Buy] [Federal Laws] [State Laws] [PCI DSS] [Professional Negligence] [Cost Savings] [Compliance Guide] [Links] [Buy Online] [About Us] [Contact Us]

Copyright 2005-2010. All rights reserved.
iSecurityPolicy.com is owned by BlackHat Consultants, LLC. BlackHat Consultants, LLC is Veteran owned.
We are proud to support other small & medium businesses that help make this a great country.