Compliance

Protect and survive: an essential guide to data protection regulation

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Recent legislative changes in the EU and US have serious implications for any organisation that stores and processes personal data. So what do CIOs need to do to ensure they stay on the right side of the regulators?
08 May 2012

The Protection of Freedoms Act: how it affects data

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Graeme Burton looks at the new Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, and its implications for data collection and retention
07 May 2012

Google launches new cloud storage service (UPDATED)

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Google Drive could spur on Facebook to make acquisition, says analyst
24 Apr 2012

Bring your own device would not work in MoD, says defence chief

Security measures would negate benefits of consumerisation
24 Apr 2012

Bring your own device-related spending to top £2bn by 2016

Some 9.5 million employees in the UK will be using their own computing devices for work, according to a new report
19 Apr 2012

Analysis: Conflicting forces of cyber law and order

New EU initiatives may duplicate, or even undermine, efforts to protect the UK’s financial services industry from cyber crime. And as Sooraj Shah and Andrew Charlesworth report, this is the last thing the sector needs
18 Apr 2012

Opinion: Security officers find shelter from the firing line

Changes in the way enterprises approach risk mean CISOs are no longer scapegoats-in-waiting
17 Apr 2012

Shared services: the only way is Essex

Essex County Council has tackled the data governance issues around shared services head on
17 Apr 2012

Report: IT directors believe EU data protection changes will raise costs

Businesses don’t believe European Commission’s assurances
03 Apr 2012

Danone uses custom SAP system to track carbon footprint

French food giant aims to reduce emissions throughout product life cycle
03 Apr 2012

Consumerisation complicates IT governance

Unrestricted use of consumer devices and public file-sharing services complicates IT governance and investigations, says forensic expert
03 Apr 2012

BSA tackles Rugby-based power company over unlicensed software

Converteam UK has to pay out more than £8,000
26 Mar 2012

CIOs fear business leaders see cloud as way to circumvent IT

Public cloud services are undermining internal IT teams, according to report
23 Mar 2012

Europe’s new data protection laws will cause conflict with the US, warn legal experts

National Security Letters involving EU citizens won’t be recognised
23 Mar 2012

Lancashire police fined after losing data on vulnerable girl

Police force must pay £70,000 fine after details of a missing girl were found in the street
14 Mar 2012

Microsoft tracks greenhouse gases in the cloud

Software giant deploys application to tot up its energy use across the globe
12 Mar 2012

Revoke legacy privileged accounts – or pay the consequences


08 Mar 2012

Essential guide to social media and consumerisation in the enterprise

Martin Courtney reveals how both users and CIOs are shaping social business and bring-your-own-device strategies
07 Mar 2012

Q&A: Bring-your-own policies bring legal risks

Consumerisation has the potential to land CIOs in legal hot water.
07 Mar 2012

Feature: Are your smartphones in safe hands?

Employee smartphones can expose organisations to serious risks. Here are the measures IT leaders need to take to counter them
06 Mar 2012

Opinion: Storage virtualisation in the cloud

Cloud-based managed service providers are well equipped to tackle latency and compliance issues
01 Mar 2012

Success by Planning for IT Project Failure: Part 2 – Failure of a Customer’s Performance Obligations


27 Feb 2012

Opinion: For every leak, there’s a solution

Data protection officers cannot be expected to combat breaches without the right tools
21 Feb 2012

Opinion: Patient privacy requires urgent treatment

IT chiefs must put measures in place to monitor, detect and deter staff breaches of patient data
14 Feb 2012