UK businesses are putting themselves at risk of prosecution because of ignorance about data protection laws on the Internet, according to IT law specialist, Tarlo Lyons. The company claims that despite the increasing adoption of ecommerce, most...
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...
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...
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...
Handling compliance and risk have become inescapable elements of the modern CIO's role as they strive to ensure the business can forge ahead while not exposing areas of weakness or potential liability.
Darling admitted it is "highly likely" the Data Protection Act has been broken and said an inquiry into the missing data will be conducted by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. He said: "The missing data in itself is not enough to access...
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