The next time you’re tempted to “borrow” your co-worker’s subscriber log-in information for Hoover’s , consider the plight of Goldman Sachs. In early May, the company was slapped with $3 million lawsuit by Ipreo Holdings LLC , a New York-based provider of software and market...
It doesn't matter what mandate is your current headache-du-jour - PCI , HIPAA (ok, someone must be worried about it), NERC CIP , SOX or some other acronym , the fact is security of critical data should be the overarching theme. It's all about the data. A few days ago, George Hulme of InformationWeek...
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For a long time, security teams have been forced to play catch-up to a bewildering number of threats, and an equally bewildering number of technical responses. I recently wrote an article for InfoSecurity Magazine addressing where I think this has left the security industry - swamped with too many things...
I promise I'm not on some kind of crusade against the whole idea of cloud computing, but just recently it seems to be coming up a lot . (That's what I get for walking around the RSA Conference trying to count the number of stock, cloud images I saw on booths.) This is an interesting article in...
The risk of financial sanctions and damaged reputations means that data security is rising up the agenda for regulated firms. James Thomas reports: Laptops left on trains, misplaced CDs… a host of high profile information leakages have brought the issue of data security well and truly into the...
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Filed under: IT process automation, Compliance, Data Protection, Mike Maddison, Compliance Monthly, Privacy, Deloitte, Regulations, Data Security, James Thomas, ICO, Financial Services Authority, Information Commissioner's Office, FSA, DPA, Data Protection Act, Ernst and Young, Stevens & Bolton, Seamus Reilly, Security Policy, Beverley Flynn