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Reasonable security safeguards
The protections a business must put around personal data.
The Act requires reasonable security safeguards to prevent breaches, including at vendors. The Rules list measures such as encryption or masking, access control, logs and backups.
Failing at this is the breach with the highest maximum penalty in the Act.
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