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four steps to combatting cybercrime with crisis management

published on 2012/05/14 by Stewart Baines

As cybercrime runs rampant, reports of major cyber incidents and data breaches continue to dominate headlines and wreak havoc on organizations of every type. These breaches can have a potentially devastating effect on a company's reputation or financial position. Yet ,too many organizations continue to treat these breaches as technical problems that require technical solutions. Here, we offer our best practice tips for dealing with such breaches....

four steps to combatting cybercrime with crisis management

cloud valuations: measuring the value of on-demand IT services

published on 2012/05/02 by Katie DeTitta

A lot of people are talking about value lately. From the value of Apple outsourcing manufacturing to China to the value of the new application market that has erupted in the past couple years. Even individuals are talking about and questioning the value of different things, such as value of a company project, department or position, or even the value of IT. So, I was interested to learn we've just released a new white paper with Forrester on measuring the value of the cloud. ...

cloud valuations: measuring the value of on-demand IT services

in search of... lost smartphones

published on 2012/04/30 by Vincent Maurin

What happens when a smartphone without a security system is left in the middle of an urban jungle? Experts from Symantec have tried to answer this question with the "Smartphone Honey Stick" project....

in search of... lost smartphones

hand written signatures are antiquated! or maybe not?

published on 2012/04/23 by Michel Operto

The thing is, a manual signature reflects a much stronger commitment than an email approval. As far as I can recall, the most successful projects on which I worked had very clear, documented written objectives and strong commitment of the top management, or they were performed in Agile mode (at times when it was called incremental development). ...

hand written signatures are antiquated! or maybe not?

the future of networking, at the speed of light

published on 2012/04/16 by Yann Gourvennec

If you think that the world has gone faster recently, which in turn has led to more globalisation and the ability to access data and systems everywhere at any time (aka Cloud Computing), you haven't seen anything yet. For there is one thing which has plagued the world of real time IT for years on end: "latency". ...

the future of networking, at the speed of light