Posts Tagged Information Security

EMC Acquires Archer, Integration Next

Posted by mversace in Wikibon on January 5, 2010


EMC Acquires Archer

The latest acquisition of Archer Technologies fills a gap in EMCs solution ecosystem with a best-in-class GRC software platform. With the Archer acquisition, and the development of an integration layer across EMC products, EMC creates the opportunity to speak more definitively about its capability to provide GRC solutions for core IT assets and operations and across the enterprise.  The acquisition also provides a competitive play for EMC against other infrastructure technology providers including Oracle, with its GRC Manager, Microsoft with GRC Solution Accelerators and Sharepoint, CA, with its own GRC Manager, and others interested in their piece of the still-developing GRC marketplace.

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Emulex Helps Data Protection and Privacy Through Encryption

Posted by Dennis Martin in Wikibon on November 13, 2009


Emulex’s strategic direction is to help IT shops provide additional data protection and privacy by encrypting data at the source – in the host server. There has been plenty of news about data breaches and literally millions of data records at risk, and some of the laws requiring public disclosure of data breaches. More recently, some states within the USA have passed laws requiring encryption for transmission or storage of personally identifiable information outside of a secure system. CIOs can no longer debate about whether to encrypt. Encryption is no longer an option, but a requirement.

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13 Questions CIO’s Should Ask about their DR Facilities

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on November 9, 2009


Avoiding Disaster Recovery Disasters

Avoiding Disaster Recovery Disasters

Friday the 13th is coming in four days so I thought I’d kick off the week with thirteen questions CIO’s should be asking about their critical IT facilities.

Information technology is a fundamental ingredient of most businesses and is intrinsically linked to the operations of an organization. As it relates to IT, CEO’s and Boards of Directors generally evaluate risk in two high level dimensions:

  • What is the likelihood or probability of a disaster?
  • What is the impact of a disaster on our business?
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The 11 Largest Data Breaches in Recent History

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on October 17, 2009


At the beginning of October, a defective hard drive containing the personal information of 70 million U.S. military personnel was returned to a contractor for repair and recycling … without being erased first.

“This is the single largest release of personally identifiable information by the government ever,” National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) IT manager Hank Bellomy told Wired.com

But the exposure of 70 million records is only the second (maybe even third) largest loss of personal data by an organization or company in the past five years. Here’s a look back at the eleven largest data breaches in recent history.

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