Organisations everywhere are struggling to keep a tight rein on their confidential information. Whether breaches are occurring through staff emailing company accounts to their home address or selling surplus IT stock containing classified information, it is essential to track what data is leaving the business. This special report examines the main threats to company data, whether malicious or careless, and asks how firms can prevent information falling into the wrong hands. Tools such as data leakage prevention and an enforceable security policy are essential to keep confidential data secure.
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Beware - Big Brother is watching you get drunk
Inbox: 'If you're good at your job then your personal life is none of their business'
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Legal Eye: Does Home Office online surveillance go too far?
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Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
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The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare
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Is SOA testing tough enough?
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Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
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Are we losing the security war?
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People are mugs over identity theft
Social network data makes life too easy for fraudsters
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Vendors hype up compliance fears
UK laws are relatively sparse…
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Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Obsession with compliance misses real threats
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Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Or could businesses shoot themselves in the foot…
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How to detect data leaks
But what methods can organisations use to plug them?
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ID tech tightens up compliance
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Who accesses your systems?
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Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime
But why is it happening every day?
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Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
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The cost of cybercrime? $1tr
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Job hunters on hackers' radar
Info watchdog: Home Office guilty of data protection breach
'Data controller' held accountable
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Getting to the Heartland of data loss
'You don't really want to do that...'
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Stories from around the web...
Top 10 list of security issues for 2008 News.com
Looming online security threats in 2008 BusinessWeek
Top tips for mobile security ZDNet UK
Protecting personal information - a guide for business Federal Trade Commission
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