2023 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 603A - Security and Privacy of Personal Information
NRS 603A.210 - Security measures.
1. A data collector that maintains records which contain personal information of a resident of this State shall implement and maintain reasonable security measures to protect those records from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
2. If a data collector is a governmental agency and maintains records which contain personal information of a resident of this State, the data collector shall, to the extent practicable, with respect to the collection, dissemination and maintenance of those records, comply with the current version of the CIS Controls as published by the Center for Internet Security, Inc. or its successor organization, or corresponding standards adopted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States Department of Commerce.
3. A contract for the disclosure of the personal information of a resident of this State which is maintained by a data collector must include a provision requiring the person to whom the information is disclosed to implement and maintain reasonable security measures to protect those records from unauthorized access, acquisition, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
4. If a state or federal law requires a data collector to provide greater protection to records that contain personal information of a resident of this State which are maintained by the data collector and the data collector is in compliance with the provisions of that state or federal law, the data collector shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of this section.
5. The Office of Information Security of the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Office of the Governor shall create, maintain and make available to the public a list of controls and standards with which the State is required to comply pursuant to any federal law, regulation or framework that also satisfy the controls and standards set forth in subsection 2.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 2504; A 2019, 2574)
