Lest We Forget About Enterprise Security
By Shubhendu Parth, CTO Forum Team
Are CIOs spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the most—strengthening the citadel and securing the digital assets—particularly when corporate wide cyber crimes and espionage have started to show a quantum jump even in developing economies like India? Security may be a key thing that worries CIOs, but there are other things that keep him occupied these days.
New IBM Analytics For Business Intelligence
BY Mel Duvall, Chief Content Officer at CIOZone
In its recently released Global CIO Study, IBM found that 83% of respondents identified business intelligence and analytics as the best way to help enhance their organizations’ competitiveness. At the company’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas, IBM outlined a series of new products and services. It includes tools to analyze the increasing volumes of unstructured data found on Web sites, on social networking sites and in digital files.
Federal Statutes Aid Trade Secret Prosecution
By John Watkins, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil
The short answer for persons leaving a company is to be very careful and to have a very clear understanding with the employer about what can and cannot be taken. The increasing involvement of government authorities in enforcing remedies involving trade secrets certainly signals a new level of risk for those who may be considering taking or copying trade secrets.
Symantec CEO Optimistic About IT Spending
By Cara Garretson, Veteran Business and Technology Journalist
Symantec isn’t the only company to forecast improved enterprise IT spending based on quarterly results in the past few weeks; executives at EMC, IBM, and Intel all spoke positively about IT budgets rebounding in the coming months.
Sidekick Goof Shows Cloud Computing Risks
By John Watkins, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil
Consider the possible consequences of a catastrophic loss of data a doctor’s office, an insurance agency, a law firm, or basically any other business. It appears that users of cloud based services may have little in the way of legal remedies. A very quick review of the terms and conditions for two of the best known cloud providers illustrate the issue.
The High Cost of HIPAA Privacy Violations
By Danny Lieberman, Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates
Data security vendors like Mcafee, IBM, Fidelis Security, Symantec, Verdasys, Reconnex, Vericept, Raytheon, Websense and Checkpoint have written thousands of white papers on how their data security products can help an organization be HIPAA compliant, but log-management cannot mitigate dumpster-diving, nor can it prevent bulk database dumps and file transfer.
Top Six Vendors for Business Intelligence
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
It’s a highly competitive market that’s largely dominated by major software companies that have acquired BI vendors and added their capabilities to existing product suites. Here are the top six vendors by revenue and market share. Together they represent more than 80 percent of the current BI market.
Court Limits Confidentiality in Civil Litigation
By John Watkins, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia recently announced a new case management procedure that will limit the parties from consenting to blanket protective orders to protect the confidentiality of documents in civil cases.
Social Media Policies for Business Part II
By Tom McLain, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil
Many social media sites are set up so that a participant needs to endorse others in order to gain credibility; however, such endorsements may give the appearance that the company is actually giving the endorsement. Thus, the company has an interest to protect in connection with any social media account used that identifies an employee of the company.
NCOIC Forms Cloud Computing Consortium
By Kevin L. Jackson, Vice President at Dataline
On Wednesday, 9 September 2009 the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) Technical Council formally approved the creation of a Cloud Computing Working Group (CCWG). Organizationally this new working group will operate as part of the Specialized Frameworks Functional Team.
