Do you have clients in Massachusetts?
You may already be violating some new regulations.

Bradley (on the left)
New rules went into place March 1 requiring firms with customers in the state to follow a formal security plan against ID theft.
Do you hold key info about them like name and social security number? Then you may need a written security plan.
Don’t know what such a plan looks like? Susan Bradley (the CPA tech “Diva”) outlines the 16 steps you need to know in Massachusetts. And, as she says, you needed to know it March 1st.
Get the details at her always useful and entertaining “The Official Blog of the SBS “Diva.”
Posted at March 8, 2010
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