GLBA Compliant Document Management & File Sharing Solution
The Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) is a federal law requiring financial institutions to develop, implement, and maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security, integrity, and confidentiality of customer information.
Under GLBA, a “financial institution” is defined any business, regardless of size, that is “significantly engaged” in providing financial products or services.
Now that may sound like a bank, but it also includes many business types that you normally wouldn’t think of as “financial institutions.”
These include, mortgage brokers, real estate appraisers, tax preparers, and even auto dealers that extend credit to their customers.1
Under GLBA, penalties for non-compliance can include fines of up to $100,000 per violation, with fines for officers and directors of up to $10,000 per violation. And if that wasn’t enough, the provisions include criminal penalties of up to five years in prison, and the revocation of licenses.
How does SmartVault support your GLBA compliance efforts?
In addition to requiring financial institutions to develop and maintain safeguards around their data, companies covered under GLBA are also responsible for ensuring that their service providers provide the same safeguards for customer information in their care.
As your trusted document management provider, SmartVault provides industry standard security measures such as encryption, authentication, access controls, and auditing to support your GLBA requirements.
By working within this rigid set of technical and process controls, we believe you can incorporate SmartVault into a GLBA compliant solution.
GLBA, require financial institutions in the United States to create an information security program to:
- Insure the security and confidentiality of customer information;
- Protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such information; and
- Protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.
As part of this security program, the Safeguards Rule requires companies to assess and address risks to customer information in their care, including three specific aspects of information security:
- Employee Management and Training;
- Information Systems; and
- Detecting and Managing System Failures.
| Where GLBA requires: | SmartVault offers solutions: |
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| Board level oversight of information security | Protecting your information and the information of your customer is something we take very seriously and at the highest level at SmartVault. Our Board of Directors has chartered our information security program and is actively engaged with our leadership to ensure that SmartVault takes every reasonable precaution to safeguard its user’s data. |
| Comprehensive written Information Security Program | SmartVault’s information security program is clearly documented, with supporting policies and procedures for all aspects of safeguarding your information, and it is reviewed on an annual basis to ensure it is still meeting the needs of the changing business landscape. |
| Risk Assessment and Remediation | On an annual basis, we at SmartVault evaluate not only our own internal processes and controls, but also those of our data center providers. |
| Administrative Safeguards | As part of the administrative safeguards in place at SmartVault, each and every employee has clearly defined roles and responsibilities for protecting our customer’s data. We provide training on information security to all new hires, and on an annual basis to all employees and contractors. We also have clearly documented processes and procedures for every aspect of our services and ensure that our staff understand and operate by those procedures. |
| Technical Safeguards | Industry Standard SSL encryption for documents in transit – protecting your documents, passwords and interactions with SmartVault from eavesdropping
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| Physical Safeguards | Physical access to our data centers is strictly controlled. Only those employees and contractors with a demonstrated need are permitted access and that access is controlled through a series of technical controls such as badge readers on the doors, biometric locks on the data center and physically keyed or combination locks on cabinets and safes. |
| An ongoing process to determine whether the Security Program is effective | At SmartVault, we are constantly seeking to improve our services and security is no exception. We continuously gather and analyze new information regarding threats and vulnerabilities, adjusting our security controls to ensure their effectiveness in the face of these changes. And we update our security strategy, the administrative, technical and physical safeguards to ensure we are providing our customers with the most comprehensive protection that we can. |
SmartVault Supports Your Compliance Efforts
While we are not a GLBA compliance consulting firm, we are happy to help point you in the right direction. Feel free to contact us at security@smartvault.com for more insight.
- Financial Institutions and Customer Information: Complying with the Safeguards Rule
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