Whois & Analysis for bittruster.com

BitLocker is a full volume encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows versions starting with Windows Vista.

It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes.

By default, it uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm in cipher block chaining (CBC) or "xor–encrypt–xor (XEX)-based Tweaked codebook mode with ciphertext Stealing" (XTS) mode with a 128-bit or 256-bit key.

CBC is not used over the whole disk; it is applied to each individual sector.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1996.

It aimed to alter the transfer of healthcare information, stipulated the guidelines by which personally identifiable information maintained by the healthcare and healthcare insurance industries should be protected from fraud and theft, and addressed some limitations on healthcare insurance coverage.

It generally prohibits healthcare providers and businesses called covered entities from disclosing protected information to anyone other than a patient and the patient's authorized representatives without their consent.

The bill does not restrict patients from receiving information about themselves (with limited exceptions).

Furthermore, it does not prohibit patients from voluntarily sharing their health information however they choose, nor does it require confidentiality where a patient discloses medical information to family members, friends or other individuals not employees of a covered entity.

The General Data Protection Regulation (abbreviated GDPR) is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).

The GDPR is an important component of EU privacy law and human rights law, in particular Article 8(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

It also governs the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA.

The GDPR's goals are to enhance individuals' control and rights over their personal information and to simplify the regulations for international business.

It supersedes the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and, among other things, simplifies the terminology.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands.

The standard is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, and its use is mandated by the card brands.

It was created to better control cardholder data and reduce credit card fraud.

Validation of compliance is performed annually or quarterly with a method suited to the volume of transactions:

In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information.

This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext.

Ideally, only authorized parties can decipher a ciphertext back to plaintext and access the original information.

Encryption does not itself prevent interference but denies the intelligible content to a would-be interceptor.