As the transition to a new Presidential administration unfolds, uncertainty abounds. Predictions about the regulatory landscape made before November may not ring as true, as Republicans look to make good on promises about smaller government and regulatory reform, particularly in […]
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In today’s business environment, IT management responsibilities often fall on the CFO, business owner or other senior leader when there’s no internal IT department. These individuals are tasked with running fail-proof IT departments – a challenging feat considering many have
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There’s a movement among certain analyst firms to promote the idea of eliminating access controls for all but the most sensitive data. It’s an interesting thought born out of a need to make user access easier and reduce the burden
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One of the defining elements of DevOps is rapid change. Rapid change, in and of itself, is generally perceived as scary and bad by IT and security admins–and the exact opposite of what you need to achieve and maintain compliance.
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There’s no doubt that using social media communications can offer businesses tremendous business advantage in terms of reaching potential new customers and staying in good touch with the ones they have. In fact, the number of organizations now actively using
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Mark your calendar for February 24 at 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific. Vera (a sponsor of TechSpective) is hosting a webinar to talk about security and compliance. Here are the details for the event from the webinar registration site: [the_ad_placement
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There has been increasing demand from government and law enforcement in recent months for some sort of encryption backdoor. The theory–whether grounded in reality or not–is that an encryption backdoor will allow intelligence agencies to detect and prevent more terrorist
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Cyber-attacks continue to become more innovative and sophisticated than ever before. In today’s cyber age, a company’s reputation—and the trust dynamic that exists amongst suppliers, customers and partners—has become a very real target for cybercriminals and hacktivists. The commercial, reputational
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Box already encrypts data in transit and data stored on its servers. That encryption isn’t good enough for some industries or businesses, though. Box owns the encryption keys, so Box can decrypt or access that data. Box removed that hurdle with
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Security is a foreign language to many people, and most security managers and executives rose up through the ranks on the security side of things, rather than the business side. That often poses a problem because it means that the
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