California SB 1386 Security Compliance

What is CA SB 1386?
CA SB 1386 is designed to ensure that Californians are alerted whenever their personal information may have been compromised. The law requires those who own or license personal information of California residents to notify them if their data has been breached. The law went into effect July 1, 2003.

California SB 1386 was the first of many database breach notification laws. More than half the states have followed suit with similar regulations.

How do companies comply with CA SB 1386?
Organizations can comply with to SB 1386 in one of two ways:

1. Encrypt customer data. This approach takes advantage of the safe harbor provided within the bill. This means that even if a company's data is breached, as long as it was encrypted, they are not required to notify any customer.
2. Companies can leave their customer data unprotected and incur the costs and losses associated with customer notification in the case of a data breach.

How does CipherOptics help?
When you need to encrypt your data in motion, CipherOptics makes it easy. Whether you need to protect a single link, or your entire network, we eliminate the complexity of encrypting today's networks.

Our solutions combine standards-based, wire-speed encryption appliances with CipherEngine, the only policy definition and key distribution technology designed for multi-node networks. Together, they give you the highest level of data protection at the lowest total cost. CipherEngine gives you the power to protect data in motion wherever, however and whenever you want, without changes or disruptions to your network, your infrastructure, or your operations.

To see just how easy it can be to comply with CA SB 1386, call 1-877-878-6655 or feel free to ask us a question.

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Helpful Resources
Text of California SB 1386