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Securities and privacy laws clearly mandate that enterprises must carefully handle incoming and outgoing communications that include private information of customers and employees. Furthermore, an enterprise that violates securities regulations by sending privileged information places itself and the receiving company at risk. Like the company that violated the law by sending out the information, the company receiving the information is at risk for penalties from regulators, as well as class action lawsuits from individuals whose privacy was breached. So, how can a company protect itself?
Dr. Suhayya (Sue) Abu-Hakima is vice president of content technology at Entrust focussing on automatic content analysis for compliance. Sue is Founder, President/CEO of AmikaNow! Corporation whose compliance technology and business was purchased by Entrust in 2004. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University and Masters and Doctorate degrees from Carleton University specializing in Artificial Intelligence algorithms. She holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Ottawa. She sits on the board of directors of the Ontario Centers of Excellence and chairs the CITO board of management. Comments welcome at Sue's blog: blog.entrust.com/compliance/
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