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The protection of personal data, one of the most sensitive mobility topics, depends on adequate testing.

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Big IT projects sometimes go wrong in spectacular ways, with some common themes running through the disaster stories like fault lines.
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Organizations must deal with corporate governance, information security and privacy, and identity theft—along with an ever-growing number of laws and regulations.
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A well-organized records management program is the foundation for an effective electronic discovery program.
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Homework assignment: 10 must-reads to be published in the weeks and months ahead. Your competitors will be reading them. You should, too.
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Popular technologies like virtualization, databases and mobility could be as risky as they are useful to enterprise users in 2009.
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A look at the most disastrous security breaches of the past year.
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In these tough times, IT managers may need to freeze, trim or cut technology projects. Here's how to diagnose your project portfolio to make the right decisions.
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The technology challenges President-Elect Barack Obama faces are similar to the ones CEOs grapple with every day. But they also shine a new light on critical infrastructure, security and healthcare issues. How will he handle them?
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This case study on Repligen, a pharmaceutical company, takes a close look at the benefits and costs of applying business continuity and disaster recovery standards through a certified program. One expert in the field argues that companies should go slow with this process and examine all costs associated with it before deciding on a competing standard. Cerifications are a business, but real cost benefits can come in the form of customer loyalty and more efficient auditing, as well as streamlining business continuity processes.
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As business technology becomes embedded in core organizational processes, control systems and decision support systems, it is vital that boards appreciate the material risks due to technology and understand the risk-mitigation strategy. Intensified concerns about risk management, auditing and fraud detection, and corporate governance have sensitized boards and top management teams to adopt an even more active role in the oversight of business strategy and key enterprise activities.
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You would think, given the dollar amounts at stake in information technology projects that every effort would be made to ensure that the quality of the software was handled by best practices in quality assurance (QA). You would be wrong.
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Business technology enables business options through four strategic roles. Key strategic governance policies should drive business technology management investment, such as spending levels, your applications, security and data portfolio, and the metrics required for evaluating and justifying information technology investments.
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IT management departments typically run short of funding when it comes to buying the secondary infrastructure required to deploy a robust business continuity and disaster recovery plan. As a result, most IT organizations have no real business continuity plan in place or else they have a plan to support key assets that is tenuous at best. Luckily, there are a few business continuity and sustainability technologies that can help.
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Learn how innovation and knowledge management is leveling the playing field of the knowledge economy. Examples include: Daiichi Sankyo Group, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Boeing and its 787 Dreamliner, InnoCentive, the Linux operating system, Cementos Mexicanos, China’s Haier Group and changes in global Internet use.

 
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Business Gets More Control Under Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
Auditors must tie noncompliance to impact on financial reports. No impact, no violation.
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The challenges and benefits of marrying regulatory requirements with smart information technology security practices.
The controversial levy, which targets a wide range of computer services, would drive IT companies from the state, critics say.  
A new regulatory plan will be put in place by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in response to mounting recessionary trends in the economy. 
With market turmoil and the subprime mess, the push to ratchet down Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and costs have simmered down. Will the compliance push get even louder now from Washington?
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is taking a back seat to other governance and risk management initiatives, according to a new AMR Research study.
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