These include appraisal notes and sickness, disciplinary and training records as well as email logs and audit trails. An addition to the Data Protection Act will allow workers access to any records that mention them by name for as little as £10.
Logs and audit trails are important to protect against legal action," said Nigel Miller, a partner at Fox Williams solicitors, president of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations. The vast majority of companies don't have enough...
Conducting transactions over IM can have serious regulatory consequences because of the lack of audit trails. Many companies have now recognised the need for greater security and features such as audit trails.
The extensive use of sensitive internal emails as evidence in the Hutton Inquiry into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly highlights important risk and liability issues for corporates that do not keep control of electronic audit trails.
For months the talk has been of audit trails, transparency and liability but come Monday 15 November businesses will be forced to practice what has been preached with section 404 of the Act coming into effect.
The Carter-Baker commission's report is likely to fuel efforts by state and federal politicians to mandate some form of audit trails. Without such audit trails, many security researchers have warned, e-voting machines are vulnerable to a slew of...
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