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  • European study shows fast, loose approach to e-mail

    Posted February 17, 2006 - 1:33 pm

    Nearly half of the IT managers in 1,700 companies across Europe do not receive guidelines on what e-mail should be saved even as awareness of the need for careful record-keeping has increased in recent years, a new study shows.

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    GPL 3 draft draws mostly positive response

    Posted January 23, 2006 - 11:16 am

    The open-source community and lawyers have greeted the Free Software Foundation's first take on a major update to its GNU GPL with more bouquets than brickbats.

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    Inventor group questions patent reform push

    Posted January 5, 2006 - 11:31 am

    As several technology trade groups call for patent reform from the U.S. Congress this year, some individual inventors say changes to patent law will hurt them while helping huge companies.

  • The high cost of compliance

    Posted December 20, 2005 - 3:59 pm

    Compliance with recent regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley has, and will continue to impose a significant financial burden on companies, consuming a large proportion of IT spending. At the same time, compliance issues are creating a whole new segment and opportunities for vendors.

  • Users Splash Cash on SOX

    Posted December 12, 2005 - 2:44 pm

    Companies will continue to need lots of compliance help in 2006. AMR Research estimates that companies will spend $6 billion on complying with Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements next year. Internal staff still sucks up the bulk of SOX expenditures, but AMR says that companies are spending a lot of new technology.

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    Critical challenges for corporate compliance

    Posted October 27, 2005 - 3:09 pm

    While many enterprises have approached compliance as a one-time event or on a per-regulation basis, the better approach is to address compliance from a strategic perspective -- one that mandates a proactive and holistic approach to building a comprehensive set of capabilities in security and availability. Such a strategic approach can go beyond the regulatory environment and help companies improve overall security and availability of information assets, reduce operating costs, and increase the quality of IT service throughout the enterprise.

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    Customers and compliance

    Posted September 29, 2005 - 5:32 pm

    Data security and privacy have become top concerns for consumers -- and for the U.S. and international regulators who've created a patchwork of new laws. At the same time, many consumers expect technology to enable better service, such as having their accounts accessible 24/7, or having their problems solved rapidly when they dial a customer call center. The question for CIOs is how to create a satisfying customer experience while complying with regulations to ratchet up overall data security.

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    The state of privacy regulation

    Posted August 18, 2005 - 4:29 pm

    ChoicePoint Inc., the Atlanta-based provider of identification services for the insurance and real estate industries, revealed in March that criminals had gained unauthorized access to aggregated personal data of 145,000 people. What followed provides a good lesson for CIOs about the impact an assortment of new privacy laws in the U.S. will have on business and technology.

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    Getting tough on the growing spam problem

    Posted July 11, 2005 - 3:14 pm

    Stopping spam and its variants is a challenge that has yet to be met -- but the federal government, state attorneys general, and others are actively working on better ways to identify and prosecute spammers.

  • SOX isn't just for the big guys

    Posted July 8, 2005 - 8:23 am

    Although some smaller companies may be electing to remain private just to avoid those sticky, and expensive, SOX regulations, others are opting for voluntary compliance. Smaller companies tell why they decided to bring their data into compliance, and how they did it.

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    The Sarbox assessment

    Posted June 23, 2005 - 1:36 pm

    Now that the first round of filing deadlines for the corporate governance law known as Sarbanes-Oxley have come and gone, companies can rest on their laurels, right? Wrong.

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    Compliance concerns and storage management

    Posted June 9, 2005 - 2:24 pm

    CIOs are accustomed to evaluating storage systems and technologies based on such issues as performance, capacity, and manageability. But understanding what it means to be compliant can go a long way to addressing storage needs.

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    Storage needs in healthcare

    Posted June 2, 2005 - 2:39 pm

    Increasingly data intensive, the healthcare industry needs to find new ways to manage stored information.

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    Suing the phishers

    Posted May 12, 2005 - 1:08 pm

    Lawsuits are one way to fight phishing. Here's what CIOs can do to prepare.

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    Basel II: An update

    Posted April 15, 2005 - 1:43 pm

    In many ways, Basel II is a wake-up call to financial institutions to consider risk on a strategic basis. According to Gartner, "institutions that establish responsive, integrated risk management capabilities will achieve a lower cost of capital than less-savvy competitors through increased customer retention, reduction in working capital, and improved credit ratings." Any way you look at it, that's a recipe for success.

  • Traditional media, Internet industry support bloggers in fight against Apple

    Posted April 12, 2005 - 11:05 am

    A coalition of mainstream media publishers are supporting blog-based journalists in their efforts to protect confidential sources. They are joined by Internet industry representatives concerned over the privacy of email.

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    Add your voice to the compliance team

    Posted March 25, 2005 - 10:50 am

    While IT is acknowledged as playing a crucial role in regulatory compliance, CIOs often find themselves without a seat at the table because ownership of the data originated in another department. Here are some practical tips for CIOs who are ready to get into the game.

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    Opportunity knocks: Healthcare and regulations

    Posted March 25, 2005 - 10:45 am

    With the final HIPAA compliance deadline set for spring 2005, organizations in the healthcare industry have been working to come up with solutions to secure their electronic data. On top of that, many healthcare organizations have also been grappling with the accountability requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This article looks at what lies ahead for the healthcare industry this year, and at some important security strategies and technologies that are being adopted.

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    What's in Store for FISMA in 2005

    Posted March 17, 2005 - 2:41 pm

    Government agencies are working toward compliance, but face competing concerns.

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    Containing compliance costs

    Posted March 1, 2005 - 10:44 am

    Compliance can devour budgets unless CIOs think about new ways of meeting standards.

  • The Sarb-Ox Shift

    Posted February 1, 2005 - 2:19 pm

    The changing regulatory environment has raised the CIO's profile, but it hasn't necessarily made the role more important. In fact, some feel that the CIO's regulatory role is more supporting than leading.

  • New law prods food makers to focus on data management

    Posted January 25, 2005 - 12:44 pm

    Signed into law in August 2003, The Food Allergen and Consumer Protection Act, known as FALCPA, will take effect at the start of next year. After that, food manufacturers must identify the presence of eight major allergens in plain language on their product labels, which will place a greater importance on their ability to manage data related to their ingredients.

  • Data under lock and key

    Posted January 11, 2005 - 4:59 pm

    Compliance will drive the innovations in databases, related products, and overall strategy this year. Here's a quick overview of what database vendors are doing to assist your efforts in this area and beyond.

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    Reviewing 2004: Software and open source

    Posted December 21, 2004 - 5:29 pm

    Open source figured heavily in 2004's many legal dramas - and in the opening salvos in a new browser war.

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    2004 was good and bad for IT security

    Posted December 20, 2004 - 10:18 am

    Experts agree: 2004 was the best of times, and the worst of times for those concerned about IT security. It was a year with high-profile arrests of virus authors, and the explosion of online crimes, from cyberextortion to identity theft, a year in which ISPs won millions in damages from spammers, and spam messages increased by 40 percent.
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