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European compliance lagging behind North AmericaAlmost 46% of European companies do not comply with Sarbanes-Oxley according to thesurvey of over 500 IT directors sponsored by IT management software company, CA.News Date: 17:11 23 Oct 2008
Stolen laptops biggest danger as extent of UK data losses revealedThe FOI request to the information commissioner's office by Software AG revealed that within the 356 reported incidents 71 memory sticks and CDs were lost, 127 devices including laptops were stolen and there we...News Date: 12:58 26 Oct 2009
IT departments 'feeling the pressure' from business on complianceIT staff say they are being put under unreasonable pressure by their companies when it comes to supporting regulatory compliance.News Date: 16:23 07 Mar 2007
Hackers take summer breaks, and work mostly on weeknightsHackers take summer breaks and reserve the winter holiday season for most of their exploits, but fewer than a quarter are motivated by money or malicious...News Date: 01:00 25 Aug 2009

eEye scans for vulnerabilities, compliance problemsEEye Digital Security today unveiled a compliance and security management tool that can be used to ensure endpoint computers meet vulnerability-assessment standards required by various industry ...News Source: www.thestandard.com Date: 06:07 09 Nov 2009
Meshing Compliance with SecurityThe realities of today s heavily regulated IT environment have forced a priority shift with IT security. Initiatives that once could never find a patron are now being funded, as organizations scurry to comply w...News
Trading Standards keeps pressure on IP flouters in CardiffTrading Standards in Cardiff has completed its second stage of inspections to check local firms are towing the line on software licensing compliance.News Source: www.microscope.co.uk
The Mounting Pressure on Compliance and Internal GovernanceBy Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development for Financial Markets at Sybase While regulatory compliance and internal governance functions have been adapting to meet the deregulated business environment, t...News Source: www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com Date: 08:00 02 Oct 2009

Addressing the Cost of ComplianceIncreasing governmental, industry, partner/ customer and internal requirements are tasking organisations to address an ever-widening range of compliance require...Whitepaper Date: 11:39 13 Oct 2009
Controls and compliance â€“ maximising value and reducing costsSarbanes-Oxley. Control effectiveness. Management assurance. These are now stock terms within the vocabulary of the CIO and a sign of the heightened level...Opinion Date: 08:43 29 Sep 2009
How LogLogic is linking operational IT to complianceComputer system log files are deeply boring and unsexy, but it is amazing how quickly they can become fascinating when things go wrong.In Depth Date: 11:00 27 Oct 2008
Driving business value from complianceSmart organisations are preparing for compliance but the smartest are realising that if approached strategically, compliance is not a burden but an opportunity....Opinion Date: 16:47 16 Feb 2009

4th Annual Data Protection Practical Compliance ConferenceThis annual Conference is specifically designed to deliver the latest thinking regarding the rapidly expanding fields of data protection compliance, privacy, security and information technology.Event Source: www.it-director.com Date: 23:00 11 Nov 2009
The Compliance Authority: IT Compliance ManagementBY ROB AYOUB The compliance acronyms roll right off our lips these days: HIPAA, SOX, PCI. All these and many others are top-of-mind to executives and practitioners throughout the industry. What about the Europe...Web
Back-up blight: Kroll Ontrack reveals major weaknesses in enterprise compliance policiesDespite the fact that most companies believe data recovery is the most important component of a compliance plan, only 50 percent surveyed say it's part of their organization's compliance policy. Regulations suc...Article Source: www.mbtmag.com Date: 17:32 19 Nov 2007
CA Announces New Product Releases to Help Strengthen IT Security and Reduce Costs of Managing Compli...CA Announces New Product Releases to Help Strengthen IT Security and Reduce Costs of Managing Compliance for Physical and Virtual Environments. CA Security and Governance Products Proactively Streamline Complia...Pressrelease Source: www.prnewswire.com Date: 14:15 20 Oct 2009

Keeping up with Regulatory Compliance (David Lacey's IT Security Blog)I’m often asked how best to keep up with the compliance bandwagon. It’s not easy. You can subscribe to the expensive IT research services offered by the likes of Gartner or Forrester, but much of the coverage c...Blog Date: 21:07 07 Nov 2007
KPMG health contract - is this the DH"open tender"?I posted a separate article "Department of Health coyness over KPMG "open tender" contract. This is the document the Department emailed to me after a month of my asking questions about whether the KPMG contract...Blog Date: 06:29 10 Sep 2009
Regulatory Compliance - we need more detailWhat we need is clarity in the questions being asked and clarity as to what the acceptable solutions are. Then, for the consultants whom our businesses are being forced to pay, enough detail to ensure that thei...Blog Date: 20:00 12 Dec 2006
Whitehall and the irritant of the FOI ActThe Department of Health has been unable to provide convincing evidence that a contract awarded to KPMG went to an open competitive tender. When I asked the department's press office about the KPMG contract a s...Blog Date: 07:00 23 Sep 2009

Microsoft's Perspective on the Future of Risk & Compliance : Susan Hauser, VP of MicrosoftAs the global economic crisis rumbles on, financial firms of all kinds anticipate an overhaul of risk management and regulatory frameworks. I asked Microsoft’s global head of Financial Services, Susan Hauser, f...Blog Source: blogs.msdn.com Date: 01:00 26 Sep 2009
DataFlux Community of Experts » ComplianceAccording to a recent AFP News article, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that the U.S. government no-fly watch list of suspected terrorists used by airlines to screen passengers is over 80,000 n...Blog
A Lesson in Compliance from the Chemical IndustryIn 2007, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) introduced the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), a rigorous program designed to protect high-risk chemical facilities from attacks. The legis...Blog Source: www.itworld.com Date: 16:19 13 Apr 2009
Miro Consulting’s Blog » license complianceshould arise. The most commonly misunderstand situation in software enterprise compliance is the need for licensing to cover non-production environments (e.g. development, test, archive, etc.).Blog