compliance
A great deal of corporate email requires no special handling, but for emails that do, secure messaging technologies help assure compliance and protection of intellectual property in a corporate user- and customer-friendly way. Here are some of the most critical secure messaging best practices.
While there is no ‘silver bullet’ for systems security, the existence of healthy and continually improvised security management systems can go a long way towards mitigating risks.
Complying with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is more than just creating operational efficiencies within an IT organization. Businesses are beginning to see opportunities in realizing a measurable return on investment (ROI) in the compliance process.
The explosion of data growth driven by business demands puts a tremendous strain on IT resources and Green IT strategy. Green IT initiatives now often include projects looking at how to access and manage data more efficiently across areas such as disaster recovery, compliance, backup, eDiscovery, and archive. Inefficient management of applications and data significantly compounds the data growth challenge and improving upon this, affords a real opportunity to make an immediate and tangible impact on Green IT strategy.
The concept of protecting data-at-rest vs. data-in-motion comes into play, forcing public organizations to examine various security mechanisms to secure their data while it’s stored or circulated in the cloud and when it’s brought back to the network proper.
We know Compliance and eDiscovery business requirements are driven by the need to manage different types of information risk – the risk of not being able to find evidence during litigation and the risk of not retaining records in compliance with specific legislation, or in other words an inability to access or organize relevant information. After all, why retain data if you can't search or organize it?
IT security breaches in recent years have highlighted the fact that compliance with certain legislation and regulations does not necessarily equate to being secure.
Phil Dunkelberger, CEO of PGP Corporation, elaborates the misconceptions around the relationships between compliance, regulation and encryption. He describes how governments across Asia look at ways of ensuring privacy and enforcing compliance in the protection of citizen and business data.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong recently announced an agreement with IT giant, IBM, to roll out a new student information system.
The Hospital Authority said Thursday it will introduce bar coding for drugs as it tries to ease public concerns after three recent drug safety incidents over just a month.
One of the incidents saw the death of several cancer patients by Rhizopus microsporus tainted Allopurinol - a gout drug - produced by Europharm.
