The cornerstone of many computer-related federal laws and enforcement efforts

The primary purpose of the Computer Security Act of 1987 is to safeguard sensitive information of the federal government and to ensure that all federal computer systems fulfill a certain desired level of security to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.

Computer crimes. A criminal act that is committed through the use of a computer, like getting into someone else's system and changing information or creating a computer virus and causing it to damage information on others' computers.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA), also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, is a federal law enacted in the United States to control the ways financial institutions deal with the private information of individuals.