In Europe, the Basel II capital adequacy framework accord will force companies, especially those operating in the financial services sector, to revise their corporate governance to improve their risk management practices.
In the first external audit of the organisation, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the SEC, which supervises public companies' accounting, had failed to implement a "comprehensive monitoring program to identify unusual or...
IT governance and compliance have replaced security as the number one item on the technology shopping list for IT bosses in 2006, according to silicon.com's second annual CIO Agenda survey. More than 80 per cent of the CIO survey respondents said...
Antivirus giant Symantec has bought an application management company in a bid to boost its sales of compliance offerings. In a statement, Kris Hagerman, a senior vice president for Symantec, said: "The application and server environment in most...
Mapping desktops to network drives and using enterprise search appliances is one way to mitigate the problem. But moving from piecemeal back-office systems to a unified platform carries its own investment overhead - and once you've moved, you have...
In addition to blocking data leaks, DLP tools can also help companies carry out a risk assessment on their data, allowing them to check where their sensitive data is stored and helping customers put it in more secure locations.