Whistleblowing After Dodd-Frank — Timely Actions for Compliance Executives to Consider
With its Office of the Whistleblower established, staffed and funded, the SEC’s new whistleblower program officially became effective as of Aug. 12, 2011. As a result, the number of companies investigated for allegations of securities fraud by the SEC could increase significantly. By improving whistleblower systems to generate more potential violation reports internally, companies may [...]
Continue Reading →Corporate Boards Vulnerable to Hacking and Information Theft, Says Thomson Reuters Survey
Most major corporations surveyed have significant security gaps that leave sensitive board-level information open to information theft and hacking, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. These holes are mostly due to board documents being stored or sent on personal devices or personal email addresses. (This is only a summary. Click on the headline to [...]
Continue Reading →FREE Webinar: Three Things You Need to Know To Respond Effectively to New Corporate Whistleblower Rules Under Dodd-Frank
Corporations and regulators actually share significant common interest in protecting and encouraging internal compliance and reporting within companies. Yet even apart from the new Dodd-Frank rules, many companies have experienced long-standing challenges in getting employees to come forward to report on misconduct and fraud internally, due to employee fears about confidentiality, retaliation, and management inertia [...]
Continue Reading →Gartner Magic Quadrant: Oracle and SAP prepare for data quality battle
Oracle is gradually catching up to its chief rival, SAP, in the race for data quality market dominance, according to Gartner.
Continue Reading →Amazon Kindle Fire: Visual Tour
Take a closer look at Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet, as unveiled Wednesday by CEO Jeff Bezos. One clear goal: Steal millions of hearts–and dollars–from Apple.
Continue Reading →Intel, Samsung Back Linux Foundation’s Tizen OS
Android and iOS dominate the mobile operating system market, but that hasn’t discourage the creation of a new open source operating system for phones and consumer hardware.
Continue Reading →Amazon Kindle Fire Meets Enterprise: Security Advice
How do you secure these devices, and prevent them from accessing the network, without help from your mobile device management system?
Continue Reading →Verizon Sides With Samsung In Apple Patent Claim
Citing harm to itself and consumers, Verizon comes out in opposition to Apple’s suit to ban Samsung devices in the U.S.
Continue Reading →Social Media’s Power: How It Impacts Your Corporate Compliance Program
The social media revolution is changing the way that information is disseminated within an organization. Thomas Fox comments on how the new information flow underscores the need for business leaders to be transparent and conduct business fairly. He then reveals the key to a good compliance program–one that not only has compliant employees but workers [...]
Continue Reading →Detecting Lies and Deception in Internal Investigations: A Three-Webinar Series
Join Global Compliance for their three-part webinar series, where they will examine unique aspects that you may discover while conducting your investigations. The webinars will address advanced techniques that will help maximize the effectiveness of your investigation program, while diminishing deception and untruthfulness. Topics will include detecting cues to deception, investigative interviewing advanced techniques and [...]
Continue Reading →Coffee Break: Information Security Best Practices for Small Businesses [VIDEOS]
This week’s Coffee Break covers two informational videos about information security best practices from Ward Buchanan, senior principal of The Business Risk Management Group. In the 10-minute videos, Ward discusses some of the steps that will tell you how to define and implement a security strategy to help protect your business. (This is only a [...]
Continue Reading →Coming Wednesday: Live Blog Of Amazon Tablet Announcement
BYTE.com will be live blogging as Amazon unveils the much anticipated Kindle tablet.
Continue Reading →Why Cisco Didn’t Fight Consumer IT
At the Mobilize conference, Cisco’s Tom Gillis shares his company’s experience with consumer IT: Resistance is futile.
Continue Reading →Google Seeks To Drop Cloud Case Against Feds
Google filed suit last year claiming that the cloud computing contract was written to benefit Microsoft. Now it seems to be changing its mind.
Continue Reading →Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Rolls Out Slowly
Mobile operating system update will be delivered to the phones of current users any time within the next four weeks.
Continue Reading →Samsung Brings Galaxy Tab 8.9 To U.S.
Samsung’s slightly smaller tablet goes on sale October 2 for $469 and $569, around $30 less than an Apple iPad.
Continue Reading →1 Million T-Mobile Customers Use Unlocked iPhones
While T-Mobile exec publishes an open letter to customers apologizing for the carrier’s lack of the Apple iPhone, customers take matters into own hands.
Continue Reading →Next Killer Tablet App: Multisite Videoconferencing
Tired of TSA pat-downs? The cost of a plane ticket now buys a year’s worth of multiparty virtual chats via a SaaS model.
Continue Reading →Marines Release Social Media Handbook
Two years after the military arm banned the use of Facebook, Twitter and the like, it’s now embracing social media to promote communications.
Continue Reading →Former U.S. CIO Kundra Earns "B" Grade In Survey
Federal IT professionals said that Vivek Kundra improved the government’s use of technology overall, but suggested his successor take a more realistic approach.
Continue Reading →Healthcare Costs Go Under BI Microscope
Health Care Cost Institute established to analyze health insurance claims data with the goal of finding new ways to cut costs.
Continue Reading →Android Adoption Twice That Of iOS
Google’s mobile operating system was running on 56% of phones sold in the past three months, more than all other competitors combined, says a report from Nielson.
Continue Reading →Load The Right Data On Server SSDs
Consider booting from SSD to bring servers back online quickly and using PCIe SSD with caching software to accelerate operating system and application data functions.
Continue Reading →The Importance of Integrity Capital in Corporate Culture
According to research completed by Corporate Executive Board, including surveys of approximately 600,000 employees in more than 140 companies, corporate culture—not process failure—most often lies at the root of corporate catastrophes. CEB’s Tracy Davis Bradley and Tim Stafford explore how to build up your company’s integrity capital to avoid these corporate compliance violations and the [...]
Continue Reading →Compliance Best Practices for Information Security: A Perspective
A decade ago, the typical IT contract contained little detail relating to information security or compliance in general, other than the standard homage to confidentiality and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Times have changed, however, and today one of the top concerns of companies purchasing technology products or implementation services is the integrity and [...]
Continue Reading →Enterprises jump into deep end with cloud data quality, now must learn to swim
Enterprises are using more and more cloud-based applications, but many don’t appear to have plans in place to address the new obstacles caused by issues like data quality and data governance.
Continue Reading →In an age of predictive analytics, data scientists help bridge the gap
Michael Driscoll, the chief technology officer of Metamarkets, talks about how data scientists are using predictive analytics to shed light on the future.
Continue Reading →SAIC Takes On Google With Speech Translation Apps
Using a hybrid of statistical analysis and rule-based techniques, SAIC says it can produce more accurate English, Spanish, and Arabic translations, on the fly. Even on an iPhone.
Continue Reading →White House, Facebook, MTV Fight Cyberbullying
President Obama’s CTO and cybersecurity coordinator have launched an effort to protect young people from harmful behavior on the Web.
Continue Reading →Homeland Security Revamps Cyber Arm
National Protection and Programs Directorate will add a new deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and shift other non-cybersecurity responsibilities onto another official.
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