over-regulation
RSS over-regulationIn Search of a Silver Bullet for Risk Management
White Paper For the foreseeable future, the industry can expect elevated levels of distrust, scrutiny and regulation. With government funding of the financial services sector in full swing nearly the world over, all... [13 Nov 2009]
The Top 10 'Must Haves' for Demonstrating Compliance
White Paper Multiply efforts by each regulation that affects one. These top 10 "Must Haves" will not only help one pass those initial audits, but also sustain compliance over time. Many organizations must adhere to... [12 Nov 2009]
Fortune 100 Corporation & Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance
White Paper The company needed to comply with the regulation's privacy and record-keeping requirements protecting data sent from the Human Resources department to third-party providers. The information included highly sensitive... [01 Oct 2009]
Four steps to smarter outsourcing
Comment Even when data or systems are not subject to external regulation, the needs and expectations of users and stakeholders will influence the security standards of any IT service (whether outsourced or not). [02 Sep 2009]
One in 78: The chances your comms are being monitored
News Figures that emerged this week reveal that, in 2008, government bodies asked to see the communications data for one in 78 adults in the UK under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa). Worries... [11 Aug 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News Stewart Room, partner in privacy and information for lawyers Field Fisher Waterhouse, said that the private sector has less regulation in place to keep data secure compared to the public sector, which saw additional data... [10 Aug 2009]
How to Avoid the High Cost of Security Audits
White Paper Over the past decade a large number of network security and financial accounting fraud incidents have occurred, resulting in greatly increased federal and local regulation of many aspects of business... [30 Jun 2009]
Gov't denies mass surveillance tech
News The press statement said GCHQ is in the process of developing technologies that are "designed to work under the existing legal framework", and that blanket interception would not be legal under the Regulation of... [06 May 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment In fact, such tests have become so widely accepted that one of the newer regulations to affect organisations accepting credit card payments - the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) regulation -... [22 Apr 2009]
Cheat sheet: Digital Britain
Cheat Sheet However, in order to get the market doing the grunt work itself, the Digital Britain interim report pledged to polish up the regulation on the subject, and take down all those nasty barriers discouraging fibre rollouts. [21 Apr 2009]
Banks axe spending - but what's escaping the chop?
News Another area PwC's Jenkins said will continue to be important is around regulation and compliance. One reason why IT investment is likely to continue according to Jenkins is that many financial organisations urgently... [02 Apr 2009]
Managing the Complexities of Compliance: Six Easy Steps to Network Compliance
White Paper Two of the most important market forces shaping the technology field in current markets are the joint factors of security and regulation. Over the course of the 20 year history in designing, building and... [23 Mar 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News In a statement on Monday, BT's director of industry policy and regulation, Emma Gilthorpe, said it was "astonishing and ludicrous [of TalkTalk] to suggest that people will be locked out of Britain's digital revolution by... [10 Mar 2009]
FS companies: Who's looking after your data?
News Eighteen per cent of respondents said they either didn't check potential customers against criminal lists, or didn't know whether such checks took place even though existing regulation requires it. The survey of IT... [04 Mar 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News Citing instances where councils have spied on citizens when investigating littering, the report says that any victims of "unlawful surveillance" by a local authority should receive compensation and that local authority snooping under the... [06 Feb 2009]
