compliance information security in comment and analysis
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment Compliance. They're led to believe that compliance is a huge, appalling task and that there's lots of legislation out there that they won't be able to keep up with," says Matthew. A lot of Huggins' work today concerns Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. [08 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment You can adopt a compliance-based approach and tick every box in the Sarbanes Oxley rule book, or you can take a risk-based approach," he says. It tells you what is expected of an information security management system. [28 Mar 2008]
How to detect data leaks
Comment Faizel recounts the tale of one customer who needed a tool to secure credit card details for PCI compliance, but when it deployed Reconnex's solution a manager put in the search term 'inventory turn report' and found out an employee had been... [19 Mar 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment Although the internet was once considered borderless, businesses are recognising that understanding the location of their web visitors has an impact on advertising and marketing, compliance, fraud protection and security. [09 Jan 2008]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment Yes, there will always be a place for the carrot approach to compliance - comply with data protection laws and you will maintain trust, reputation and brand. Thus, the compliance function within the organisation, if it exists, is disconnected from... [27 Nov 2007]
On-demand software can help banks avoid fines
Comment However, 2007 has brought a change and an increase in the number of vendors marketing hosted AML solutions to the wider market for compliance information services, know your customer (KYC) and transaction monitoring - especially in the US. [01 Nov 2007]
Security - no longer just about hackers
Comment It is only quite recently that such thinking has broadened across the wider majority of sectors, aided and abetted by the compliance wave. I went to a fascinating panel session a couple of weeks ago, where I and a number of other analysts were... [31 Jul 2007]
BI for all
Comment Regulatory and compliance issues are also contributing to the amount of data that needs to be stored and analysed for accurate reporting. Its suite of business intelligence products not only includes Excel 2007 and Excel services (offering... [18 Jul 2007]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment ISO 17799 (expected to be renamed ISO 27002 this year) provides a set of best practices for security, in areas including compliance. Security for compliance purposes has to be considered in the wider corporate context of roles and relationships... [02 Jul 2007]
Plugging and preventing data leaks
Comment Mike Small, director of security strategy at CA, says: "Information classification is difficult because companies built applications to solve certain business needs and the developers did not consider the requirements of data classification and... [07 Mar 2007]
Compliance made easy
Comment Diagonal's Whitby explains: "Normally compliance is ensuring that you have the right security around your data. Reusing parts of existing BI systems enables you to guarantee that the same performance management information will be used for... [10 Oct 2006]
Analysis: Security, compliance and CRM in one
Comment In the end, getting ID management right means not only protecting corporate data from its biggest security risks - employees - but also easing compliance efforts and improving customer relations. Identity management promises to secure corporate... [15 May 2006]
Analysis: The way to security and compliance
Comment Organisations worldwide are grappling with how to secure access to their applications - and keep track of the compliance burden of who has access to which systems. Now identity management is seen by many companies as a critical tool to them in... [04 May 2006]
Leader: Rename CIOs? Or dump them altogether?
Leader For one thing, CIO sits neatly with CEO, CFO, COO and these days CMO, CSO and even now CCO - for chief marketing, security and compliance officers respectively. Another reader, Bobby Kordet, plumped for 'Information Assurance Manager' on the basis... [04 Nov 2004]
Leader: Do you trust your tech team with your business?
Leader Educating staff, drafting corporate policy and ensuring governance and compliance issues are met should not be on the 'to do' list of any techie. Businesses are putting their very existence in the hands of techies unqualified to tread the minefield... [06 Sep 2004]
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