Kurt Rapelje, head of Laserfiche's R&D efforts worldwide talks about the importance of ECM not only as a tool for storing unstructured data but also meeting regulatory requirements for many industries.

The collapse of the global financial crisis in 2008 highlighted the inadequacy of existing regulatory frameworks. That regulators would allow global institutions like Lehman Brothers to run freely amok and cause widespread chaos across other industries is a clear indication that governance isn’t working the way it should be.

Healthcare organizations today must manage two diametrically opposed sets of requirements: the practitioner’s need for ease of access to information versus the business’s need to apply increased privacy and security controls against that data.

Since the 1990s, China Customs has made a great effort to establish a modern customs system by introducing the concept of risk management. As the country’s external trade value increased very rapidly, China Customs faced ever-greater administrative risks. In 1998, severe circumstances in antismuggling fields drew attention from top leaders in China Customs. The head of the Statistics department made plans to establish the EAS.

The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) is expected to have a more robust and centralized security system after its implementation of security enhancement services from ST Electronics across its headquarters and two branches in Oman.

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.

After numerous data leakage incidents, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) organized last week a conference entitled 'Stop data leakage' for government employees.

With compliance coming into greater importance across the entire organization, how do you tie together directives to align IT with business, improve operational efficiency and comply with security policies and standards. Robert Stroud, ITSM and IT Governance Evangelist at CA connects ITSM, ITIL and Governance and how organizations can make all three meet.