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?
CipherOptics makes data protection simple. Whether you need to encrypt data in motion across the network or the entire computing infrastructure, CipherOptics makes it easy to comply with CA SB 1386.

The CipherEngine solution allows organizations to encrypt data using a global policy and key manager along with both hardware and software-based encryption enforcement points. The CipherEngine data protection solution offers best-of-breed performance, elegantly simple installation and management, and breakthrough scalability. 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 discuss how CipherOptics can help you can comply with CA SB 1386, call 1-877-878-6655 and speak directly with a CipherOptics encryption specialist or feel free to ask us a question.

Learn more about CA SB 1386

Learn More About:
Scope of Audit Reduction
Application Domain Security
Network Encryption

Helpful Resources
Text of California SB 1386