But compliance
is still the top driver impacting information security, with two out five organisations (43 per cent) saying their information security function is integrated with the organisation's risk management programmes - up from 40 per cent...
Many businesses are still failing to implement effective back-up strategies leaving their companies ill-prepared for disaster recovery and at risk from data loss, compliance headaches and a new breed of criminal, intent on holding stolen data to...
Figures contained in the report show that 99 per cent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have heard of the DPA and 77 per cent consider that data protection is important to their business. Effective practice in data protection was closely...
In terms of ensuring their compliance with the 1998 Data Protection Act he said: "SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) don't want to know. Figures released today show that less than half of those questioned were able to comply with even the...
Broaching these problems across major enterprises can require an empowered privacy professional as well as good management systems. Yet some major corporations do take the privacy issue seriously because of legal compliance requirements and...
In a statement, Kris Hagerman, a senior vice president for Symantec, said: "The application and server environment in most enterprises is growing and changing so fast, it has become dizzyingly complex.