South Carolina officials discuss privacy as deadline to set security controls nears

Statescoop: South Carolina agencies are rapidly approaching a major deadline for implementing information security controls this summer, and state privacy and security leaders believe they’ve made the kind of culture changes necessary to meet that target.

At a panel discussion at the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Global Privacy Summit, state officials detailed their work to educate staffers in South Carolina’s 70 different agencies about how to make data more secure ahead of the July 1 deadline mandated by the Division of Information Security.

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