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Comment Failing to act with reasonable care can include anything from disclosing a PIN, not disposing of bank statements properly, accessing bank websites via unauthorised links in emails, or not keeping firewall or spyware protection up to date.
[15 Apr 2008]
Comment While this US act covers companies listed in that country, it can also affect UK firms that are subsidiaries or partners of US firms. And Phil Huggins, CTO of security consultancy IRM, thinks the DPA will become more of an issue as the 2006...
[08 Apr 2008]
Comment Does the act of considering an offshoring contract make me a disloyal employer? But the lack of loyalty is not created by UK companies being elitist and oppressive in their management of IT workers. Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer...
[31 Mar 2008]
Comment In particular, the Companies Act places a direct obligation on directors to ensure the confidentiality of data. The obligation to protect all information imposed by the Companies Act does at least ensure common measures such as encryption can be...
[27 Mar 2008]
Comment So how big does the problem have to become before governments act, asks Simon Moores. There is the regular loss of confidential personal data by large companies and government agencies, such as HMRC, or, at the more sophisticated end of the...
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment Texting is a hard act to follow. These are big companies, although Yahoo! Yet once their road to greatness is established, few companies achieve genuine innovation. Most large companies, whatever the rhetoric, are simply not very good at innovating.
[20 Feb 2008]
Comment If our people are the future of our industry, then the time to act is now. You have to take your hat off to those companies with graduate training programmes. The bigger problems run deep and are crippling the IT industry.
[11 Feb 2008]
Comment It's nothing to do with the DP [Data Protection] Act. The recent spate of data breaches illustrates just how vigilant both companies and consumers need to be when dealing with personal data. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...
[20 Dec 2007]
Comment Balancing act It is a delicate balancing act between sweating assets or adopting newer, low-energy devices that consume less and so cost less. Individually they may only consume a few watts of power but if active on thousands of desktops and...
[02 Nov 2007]
Leader Equally, when a crime is committed companies also need to be able to report it to police who will act on the information - although that is a separate issue. Every fire needs three ingredients: fuel, oxygen and heat.
[08 Oct 2007]
Comment So let's get out there and bark.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign is about giving the public confidence that when they entrust their personal information to an organisation it will act as a responsible guardian of that data.
[04 Sep 2007]
Comment The introduction of the legislation has meant an improved focus on security and better information about costs of failure, which allows for sounder investments, she added.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign is about giving the public confidence...
[03 Sep 2007]
Comment While other companies make commitments - though do not necessarily act on them - on greener manufacturing and recycling, Apple keeps its future hardware under wraps, thereby failing a number of Greenpeace's criteria.
[23 Aug 2007]
Comment This means BI can no longer be confined to just the power users in an enterprise and must now be brought to a new and wider audience - the operational workers who can access and act upon business data from the desktop applications they are...
[18 Jul 2007]
Comment Over the last year silicon.com has reported on a number of stories, such as laptop thefts and Data Protection Act breaches by banks, which show there is still much to do to improve the way the organisations treat information they hold about the...
[16 Jul 2007]
Comment Such an appointment would also refocus other business heads and force them to realise they have as much duty as the CIO to report in to the CRO and act upon recommendations. But whatever approach a company takes, and appointing a chief risk officer...
[10 Jul 2007]
Round-Up is the act of getting distracted and lost on the web despite going online with a specific purpose in mind. However, having a virtual HQ in Second Life is now distinctly old hat, with many companies waking up to the potential of whether the user...
[13 Apr 2007]
Comment And with companies ultimately responsible for what travels over or resides on their networks, failure to act, or claiming ignorance, is no defence. And many companies are failing to control and identify issues on their networks such as productivity...
[28 Mar 2007]
Comment I assured him the other night that of course we'd pull no punches if his employer or he personally should cock something up or act inappropriately - he smiled at that and very much believed me - but he also knows we do our best to understand what...
[16 Mar 2007]
Round-Up That said, Virgin Media responded to the challenge with an act of childishness so juvenile it put Sky back in the shade. Of course, the Round-Up has a vested interest in all of this - it can't watch The Simpsons now - but others are also being...
[02 Mar 2007]
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