Cloud Computing Buyers Lack Key Skills
Organizations lack critical cloud computing skills such as assessing the risks associated with cloud computing and managing cloud initiatives according to KPMG
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Information Management
Open Cloud Initiative President Outlines Mission
The Open Cloud Initiative, a non-profit organization established to advocate for open standards in cloud computing, officially launched last week and announced a 30-day public comment period on its Open Cloud Principles, which are focused on interoperability, avoiding barriers to entry or exit, and ensuring technological neutrality. The principles, however, are not intended to point
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Google’s Two-Factor Authentication More Widely Available
Google ’s two-factor authentication system, which allows individual users to opt for a second login step, is now available in hundreds of countries and dozens of languages
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HSBC Admits Data Loss, Apologizes to Customers
HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary HSBC Private Bank SA admitted Thursday that a former employee stole records on 15,000 clients and passed them to French government authorities.
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‘Vast Gaps’ in Data Protection
Most financial companies have “vast gaps” in their privacy and data protection programs, according to a study released this week by security firm Compuware and Ponemon Institute, a research company. The survey found that 83 percent of companies use real customer data in development and testing – and 51 percent of those who do so,
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‘Vast gaps’ in data protection
Most financial companies have “vast gaps” in their privacy and data protection programs, according to a study released this week by security firm Compuware and Ponemon Institute, a research company.
The survey found that 83 percent of companies use real… Read the rest
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A Global View of SOA-based Policy Admin Systems
With a preference for service-oriented architectures (SOA), the U.S. market is the furthest ahead in deployments of SOA-based policy administration systems, but companies in other parts of the world are starting to catch up
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Oracle Closes in on Sun, Wall Street Worries
Let the worries begin. The European Commission Thursday approved the $7.4 billion merger between database giant Oracle and long-time Wall Street denizen Sun Microsystems
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Dark Clouds: Demanding an End to Outages of Online Services
After getting frustrated with his previous customer relationship system–a desktop software package–Bob Barry, president of Barry Capital Management Inc., switched to Salesforce.com
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Enterprise Risk Management: Getting Holistic
The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that securities firms need to change the way they approach risk, needing now to consider a wider variety of economic scenarios and to evaluate risk in an enterprise-wide holistic way. To date, most securities firms have focused on segments of risk, said Richard Thornton, a manager with the London-based
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