Post by Logan on Apr 1, 2016 4:51:37 GMT -6
CHEYENNE – It’s going to be a busy summer for Flint Waters, courtesy of the Wyoming Legislature.
As the state’s chief information officer under the Department of Enterprise Technology Services, Waters knows his way around the business of data security. And he will be using that knowledge to help state agencies, counties, cities and towns revisit their own data policies this summer, as part of a law passed by the Legislature earlier this year.
Senate File 38 was one of several bills brought to the Legislature this past session by the four-member Joint Task Force on Digital Information Privacy. During the last two years, the task force has been looking at ways state government can help protect the public’s information, and SF 38 takes one of the broadest approaches to that topic.
The bill consists of two parts. The first requires each state agency to launch an in-depth look at its policies for data collection, handling, security and management. Included in that assessment is a “data inventory,” in which each agency must look at all the data it has collected, and then explain why it collected it and whether it really still needs to.
Read more: www.wyomingnews.com/news/law-requires-state-agencies-take-nd-look-at-data-security/article_bcefe09e-f63c-11e5-a90e-1f743fa79de9.html
As the state’s chief information officer under the Department of Enterprise Technology Services, Waters knows his way around the business of data security. And he will be using that knowledge to help state agencies, counties, cities and towns revisit their own data policies this summer, as part of a law passed by the Legislature earlier this year.
Senate File 38 was one of several bills brought to the Legislature this past session by the four-member Joint Task Force on Digital Information Privacy. During the last two years, the task force has been looking at ways state government can help protect the public’s information, and SF 38 takes one of the broadest approaches to that topic.
The bill consists of two parts. The first requires each state agency to launch an in-depth look at its policies for data collection, handling, security and management. Included in that assessment is a “data inventory,” in which each agency must look at all the data it has collected, and then explain why it collected it and whether it really still needs to.
Read more: www.wyomingnews.com/news/law-requires-state-agencies-take-nd-look-at-data-security/article_bcefe09e-f63c-11e5-a90e-1f743fa79de9.html