{"id":236,"date":"2015-07-28T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/07\/28\/trend-state-adds-data-security-requirements-for-state-contractors\/"},"modified":"2015-07-28T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T21:56:00","slug":"trend-state-adds-data-security-requirements-for-state-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/trend-state-adds-data-security-requirements-for-state-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: State Adds Data Security Requirements for State Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut&#8217;s enacted Senate Bill 949 contains significant\u00a0data security requirements for entities contracting with state agencies and entities in the health insurance and administration business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contracting entities must provide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comprehensive data-security program,\u00a0including:\n<ul>\n<li>the use of security policies,<\/li>\n<li>annual reviews of such policies,<\/li>\n<li>access restrictions, and<\/li>\n<li>mandatory security awareness training for employees beginning July 1, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restrict access to Confidential Information only to authorized contractor employees,<\/li>\n<li>Maintain the Confidential Information in secure servers with firewall protections<\/li>\n<li>Implement security and breach investigation procedures.<\/li>\n<li>Undergo annual reviews<\/li>\n<li>Include ongoing employee security awareness program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/connecticut-adds-significant-data-security-mandates-state-contractors-certain-health\">National Law Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut&#8217;s enacted Senate Bill 949 contains significant\u00a0data security requirements for entities contracting with state agencies and entities in the health insurance and administration business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contracting entities must provide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comprehensive data-security program,\u00a0including:\n<ul>\n<li>the use of security policies,<\/li>\n<li>annual reviews of such policies,<\/li>\n<li>access restrictions, and<\/li>\n<li>mandatory security awareness training for employees beginning July 1, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Restrict access to Confidential&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-data-breach","category-health-care-data","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}