Better safeguard than sorry
To quote studio head Samuel Goldwyn’s famous malaprop, an oral contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. The same can be said of a written security policy if a company doesn’t carry out its provisions. A proposed FTC settlement with a Texas technology firm alleges the company created a written “Third Party Vendor Risk Management†policy as part of its obligations under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule, but didn’t follow through to...