The new Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, as well as the 2007 release of Microsoft Office, promises a higher level of data security and user account control–features that will help both insurance agencies and their carriers maintain compliance with federal and state privacy regulations, an executive for the software giant contends.
Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., announced the business availability of Vista and the Office 2007 release at a major press event in New York earlier this year.
According to Bill Hartnett, general manager of the Insurance Solutions Group at Microsoft, the new platform and software include features designed to foil data breaches that could mean regulatory troubles for insurance agents, brokers, insurers and others who handle sensitive information.
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