A How To: Data Management Tools and Techniques for FISMA and Privacy Act Compliance
Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) in the possession of the government and preventing its breach are essential for the government to retain public trust. But, how does the federal government – the largest single producer, collector, consumer and disseminator of information in the U.S. – meet mandates to widely disseminate most information, while on the other hand, adhere to laws preventing the disclosure of PII data?

This session examines the data management challenges presented by laws such as Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA), including the OMB’s extended annual reporting requirements, as well as the Privacy Act of 1974.

Learn tools and techniques, some drawn from actual federal agency scenarios, to: 

• Know what PII you collect and all the places it is stored and used
• Reduce the collection and storage of PII wherever you can
• Control access to PII no matter where or how it is accessed
• Encrypt all PII both “at rest” (storage) and “in motion” (transmission)
• Monitor for, alert on, and notify when a privacy breach occurs