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Electronic discovery, or eDiscovery, can play a central role in the corporate litigation process, and is increasingly expensive as companies retain more data and employees store that data in diverse locations. Unlike regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, which placed many new requirements directly on organizations with a deadline for compliance, the electronic discovery amendments affect them […]

Social media takes all of your relationships that otherwise would be separate, and throws them into a single group called “friends.” You have no way to separate out all of these people in your profile as you would in real life. This is the fundamental flaw in social networking that has far-reaching impact. This is […]

This article will look at what the health care industry is doing to meet HIPAA compliance, save on IT costs and ensure security is baked in as well. There are a multitude of SaaS (cloud or ASP) offerings across the health care industry. Many small practices cannot afford traditional IT, regulatory compliance and security services. […]

For years now, we as security practitioners have been perceived as a road block to project timelines and overall efficiency of the business. Many security shops carried around a giant stick and typically said “no” to almost anything that came along. On top of this, we’ve had such a narrow focus about what we feel […]

But Can Cloud Services Meet These Needs? Cloud vendors have already recognized the huge potential of hosting a virtual backup site for large enterprises. I have seen marketing slicks that give you the ability to map your current network operations center and then make a one-to-one match to the cloud computing offering. In effect, the […]

“Everything is on the table now, and you can bet that when the smoke clears, budgets and processes will be a whole new animal.” Many people discuss bubbles, such as the dot-com bubble and the real-estate bubble. Well, there is another bubble that should be discussed -– the IT security budget bubble. Why? Because it […]

If you’re like me and you were around back when hardware and software were essentially dominated by the Wintel crowd, you probably remember something very troubling about that era. Remember how software and hardware were developed separately and the issues this caused? Well the same people who brought us this failed model have delivered it […]

Most of the SPAM we see today comes in with a variety of hooks, the most dangerous being those looking to steal data and account credentials. Because criminals know that the weakest link is the human, it should be no surprise that SPAM continues to be one of the biggest issues facing many enterprises. IT […]

Enterprise IT budgets have been fleshed with funds for what most consider a core defense; antivirus protection. Many others have gone by what best practice says to do and have layered in intrusion detection, host-based firewalls and anomaly detection. Enter any organization today and you will find some type of patching going on, whether it […]

Improvements to Web infrastructure have allowed cloud computing to prosper. Now firms can run applications online, allowing their employees to be far more flexible. This, of course, changes how we utilize technology as it relates to the business process. You may well have come across cloud computing and its various subgroups under other headings: utility […]