What is all the crying about? If companies had been listening to their security people that make the recommendations, then there would not be a problem now, would there?

Put it into perspective...its 2008 and a decent firewall hurts? File encryption hurts? come on...companies do the minimum required to "pass" the same regulators that allowed this financial crisis to occur. Then,knowing full well the security industry has been making the case for BASIC security, the gov moves and now the whining begins.

give me a break!

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Thanks for the heads up Bill,

For our company, the file transfer stuff was the biggest part. After reading this post, we researched a new file sharing service, as we realized we were sending "red flag" files to our clients using our normal email system.

We drilled several reps from different services about the whole 201 CMR thing, and went with ShareFile in the end. They had a web page about 201 CMR 17 compliance, which drew my attention initially. Call them or sign up for a consultation. They can spell it all out for you and let you try it for free.

Thought I'd just put it out there for my fellow businessmen.

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Your article says May 1, 2010 isn't it March 1, 2010?