IT legislation and regulation
Understanding the law as it applies to IT management can be one of the hardest task for IT leaders, but the growing burden of regulatory compliance makes it essential. Legislation and regulation affects enterprise IT in many ways, not just in long-standing tasks such as contracts and software licensing. We examine the latest legal development and how they affect IT managers, and talk to the experts in IT legislation and regulation to explain what it means to your organisation.
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04 Sep 2024
Retailers question using live facial recognition for shoplifting
Retailers praise benefits of retrospective over live facial recognition in dealing with shoplifting, but stress there are ongoing concerns around the ethical, legal and safety implications of using the technology in stores Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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04 Sep 2024
Fraud and scam complaints hit highest ever level in UK
The Financial Ombudsman Service says it recorded almost 9,000 complaints about fraud and scams from April to June, the most ever recorded Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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29 Jun 2007
Software to help CIOs meet governance regulations
CIOs facing a rising bills to meet governance, risk and compliance regulations may be able to control their costs better if they turn to new purpose-built software. Continue Reading
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27 Jun 2007
Iron Mountain buys Accutrac for records management
Continuing its effort to reinvent itself as an online backup and records management company, Iron Mountain announces its second acquisition in this market in as many months. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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05 Jun 2007
IBM to acquire Watchfire for risk, compliance
IBM agreed to acquire Waltham, Mass.-based Watchfire Corp. to add Web application and compliance testing tools into Big Blue's Rational development platform. Continue Reading
By- SearchSecurity.com Staff
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05 Apr 2007
Goldman Sachs: Interest in NetApp SAN products wanes
A survey by the investment firm shows enterprise storage buyers had a declining interest in NetApp SAN products over the last year. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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26 Mar 2007
Are there regulatory compliance issues related to unstructured data?
The most important issue is legal discovery. You may not know what you have or how to find it, so it can be very difficult to find the files that may be required by a court of law... Continue Reading
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07 Mar 2007
Symantec acquires automated risk assessment firm
Symantec has acquired Reston, Va.-based 4FrontSecurity, a maker of automated risk analysis and security management tools. An expert says it's the latest sign that the security risk assessment market is heating up. Continue Reading
By- Robert Westervelt, TechTarget
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04 Mar 2007
WordPress upgrade fixes 'dangerous' flaw
Developers of the open source blogging platform WordPress say users should upgrade to version 2.1.2 immediately to address a "dangerous" security hole that was recently attacked. Continue Reading
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27 Feb 2007
Black Hat presenter nixes RFID cloning demo under pressure
A demonstration of a device that could easily clone radio frequency identification (RFID) badges, was pulled from a conference presentation under pressure from a chip maker. Continue Reading
By- Robert Westervelt, TechTarget
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26 Feb 2007
Sun scraps 6920 array, offloads support to HDS
The long-rumored deal that Sun will sell its 6920 virtualization array to HDS is done. But rather than developing the product, HDS will upgrade users to its TagmaStore instead. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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19 Feb 2007
Quiz: Compliance improvement -- Get better as you go forward
A five-question multiple-choice quiz to test your understanding of the content presented by expert Richard Mackey in this lesson of SearchSecurity.com's Compliance School. Continue Reading
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30 Jan 2007
Using IAM tools to improve compliance
Provisioning and password management tools can ease complexity, reduce help desk calls and save money. But they also have an added benefit: they can help with your compliance woes. Continue Reading
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01 Jan 2007
Storage Outlook '07: Seeking better backups and archives
Tom Becchetti, senior infrastructure engineer for a major national financial services company, says compliance, backup and archiving will be top priorities in 2007. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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13 Dec 2006
Host-based replication
While the lines of distinction among data protection technologies such as backup, continuous data protection and replication have blurred, host-based replication can play a key role in your overall data protection strategy. Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2006
IBM to acquire compliance software firm
IBM plans to acquire Consul Risk Management Inc., a Delft, Netherlands-based firm whose software tracks non-compliant behavior of employees. Continue Reading
By- Robert Westervelt, TechTarget
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21 Nov 2006
Long-term archiving needs better media, experts say
The hundred-year archive is coming soon, and industry watchers say a new physical medium for long-term storage should come with it. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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26 Oct 2006
Achieving compliance: a real-world roadmap
A security manager's responsibilities extend beyond the technical aspects of the job. These days, effective governance and compliance are just as essential. Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2006
Enhanced Identity and Access Management
From consolidating directories to automating provisioning and rolling out single sign-on, these sessions identify how leading organizations are strengthening authorization and enforcing access controls. Continue Reading
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11 Sep 2006
Data storage compliance's impact on storage product choices
Data storage compliance is having a tremendous impact on the storage organization, as well as the management practices employed to retain, search, certify and destroy data. It's not just regulations like SOX or HIPAA that influence storage -- there are well over 10,000 regulations that affect data storage, backup and protection across a range of industries. But companies are often left alone in their quest to identify the regulations that relate to them, identify what data should be saved and implement storage to meet those regulations. This article covers the essential goals of data storage compliance, examines implementation considerations and obstacles and reviews the impact of compliance on storage. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2006
Xiotech resurfaces with data compliance focus
Xiotech has been busy acquiring a legal discovery software vendor and building a data compliance practice, but what about storage? Continue Reading
By- Jo Maitland, TechTarget
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08 Aug 2006
Users cautious about Brocade-McData merger
Customers are worried about McData switches interoperating with other products and how Brocade will handle product overlap. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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31 Jul 2006
Beyond HIPAA and GLBA
Most firms are familiar with HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley, but newer regulations are pushing certain industry sectors to adopt strong authentication Continue Reading
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27 Jun 2006
Cost of Libra magistrates system trebles
The Department of Constitutional Affairs has admitted that the cost of the Libra case management system for magistrates courts will rise to £487m – more than three times the £146m original cost set in 1998. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2006
FullArmor lives up to its name
PolicyPortal provides an Internet interface to easily configure, monitor and enforce near real-time Active Directory-based policy compliance through client agents. Continue Reading
By- James Foster, CSC
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19 Oct 2005
Elements of a data protection strategy
In this excerpt from Data Protection and Lifecycle Management, Tom Petrocelli addresses the importance of securing data for regulatory compliance and outlines the five components of a data protection strategy. Continue Reading
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18 Sep 2005
Ensure that legal responsibilities are clear -- Especially when trouble strikes
Excerpt from Chapter 15 of Information Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot Camp. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2005
Sarbox compliance costing companies
Companies’ required investments to attain compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley data security legislation has come at the expense of dealing with other security threats, according to the Information Security Forum (ISF). Continue Reading
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21 Jul 2005
Sarbox draining corporate security budgets
Corporate investment to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley data security legislation has come at the expense of dealing with other security threats, according to the Information Security Forum (ISF). Continue Reading
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12 Jul 2005
Sarbox challenge drains security budgets
International corporate spending on compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley data security legislation has come at the expense of dealing with other security threats, according to the Information Security Forum. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2005
LogicaCMG on Met payroll
The Metropolitan Police Authority has selected LogicaCMG to provide a £31m fully-managed payroll and pension administration... Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2005
Spike ** LogicaCMG to manage Met payroll
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) has selected LogicaCMG to provide a £31m fully-managed payroll and pension administration... Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2005
Met Police gets LogicaCMG on payroll
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) has selected LogicaCMG to provide a £31m fully-managed payroll and pension administration... Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2005
HIPAA causes data security problems for small businesses
If your local dentist isn't complying with HIPAA's security rules, he's not alone. Experts say most doctors' offices aren't getting it. Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2004
Report finds computer system likely culprit in Chinook crash
A former air commodore - one of the highest ranks in the RAF - has questioned the airworthiness of the Chinook Mk2 helicopter... Continue Reading
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01 Jun 2004
Chinook 10 years on
This week sees the 10th anniversary of the Chinook ZD576's crash, as former top military officers cast doubt on the finding that... Continue Reading
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28 May 2004
Ex-RAF chief says no to blame on Chinook
A former RAF air commodore has questioned the integrity of systems and the airworthiness of the type of Chinook helicopter which... Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2004
Is the national programme for NHS IT set to be 'the biggest gamble in the world'?
The private concerns of clinicians and IT professionals about the national programme are not being addressed, despite the front... Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2004
Best practices for enabling and maintaining compliance
As part of our Storage Decisions conference preview series, Shaun Mahoney, senior storage engineer for Citigroup, Randy Wilson, assistant vice president of IT at Essex Investment Management Company and Enterprise Storage Group's Peter Gerr discussed the best practices for enabling compliance. Continue Reading
By- Mark Lewis, Editor
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11 Nov 2003
MPs slam Libra as one of UK's worst PFI deals ever
Costs more than double and Whitehall shoulders risk on magistrates IT. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2003
Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim
Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous... Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2003
Fujitsu won £800m Post Office contract after misrepresenting itself, says lawyer
High Court claim by ex-employee makes damning accusations Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2003
NHS £5bn IT procurement finally begins
The Department of Health (DoH) has launched the formal procurement process for its £5bn restructuring of NHS IT. Continue Reading
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20 Jun 2002
MoD's Chinook tactics spark a constitutional row
Chinook: The MoD's actions over the crash of Chinook ZD576 could have legal ramifications Continue Reading
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20 Mar 2002
MPs from all parties unite in fight to clear Chinook pilots
This week the Tories led an unprecedented all-party move to get the Government to clear the names of the pilots blamed for the... Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2002
Lessons to be learned from Chinook tragedy
Since 1997, Computer Weekly has studied the IT-related lessons from the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre... Continue Reading
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31 Jan 2002
Lords prepare to release Chinook verdict report
The House of Lords will publish a report next Tuesday on whether pilot negligence or a possible technical malfunction was the... Continue Reading
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08 Nov 2001
RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated
Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for... Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2001
Top Chinook test pilot reveals unease over engine software
A campaign by Computer Weekly and Channel Four News has sought to show that a computer problem not pilot error could have led to... Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2001
Chinook pilots feared onboard software
RAF pilots refused to fly the Chinook Mk2 helicopter for even short journeys before the fatal Mull of Kintyre crash due to... Continue Reading
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27 Sep 2001
Chinook hearing begins
A new inquiry into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 is due to begin this week in the House... Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2001
Now Via sues Intel to block sales of Pentium 4
Via Technologies is seeking to stop sales of the Pentium 4 family of microprocessors through a lawsuit filed on 10 September... Continue Reading
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10 Sep 2001
Via ups the Intel ante
Via Technologies has hit back in its war with Intel by issuing the chip giant with lawsuits relating to patent infringement, fair... Continue Reading
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10 Sep 2001
Intel sues Via over P4 chipsets
In a move that has been anticipated for months, Intel has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies in the US.... Continue Reading
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23 Aug 2001
Rambus faces second fraud case
A lawsuit has been filed against Rambus in the US, less than four months after the company was found guilty of fraud and fined... Continue Reading
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13 Aug 2001
Rambus cleared of standards-setting charge
A US district court has set aside a jury verdict against Rambus, clearing the memory chip designer of allegations that it set... Continue Reading
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03 May 2001
Lords vote to undertake limited Chinook enquiry
The House of Lords, in an historic step, has voted to hold an independent inquiry into the RAF's verdict of gross negligence... Continue Reading
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01 May 2001
Lords call for Chinook crash inquiry
Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher was one of 132 peers who voted for a new inquiry over the fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on... Continue Reading
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21 Mar 2001
Chinook probe: MPs join Lords
In an extraordinary move, the House of Commons' most powerful committee is to seek the help of the House of Lords as part of its... Continue Reading
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28 Feb 2001
Think before you link
Laws governing the Net remain a grey area, even for such issues as deep linking, while discrimination laws also apply to the Web Continue Reading
By- Elsa Booth
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18 Jan 2001
IT directors: build bridges or be swept away
Old-style IT directors are doomed, says Chris Rawson at Lloyd's of London. Rod Sweet reports Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2000
Sema troubles deepen
IT services company Sema yesterday postponed an analysts briefing into its disastrous performance and ordered an internal inquiry into share dealing by a... Continue Reading -
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30 Nov 2000
Chinook response sends "wrong signal" to software industry
As defence secretary Geoff Hoon rubbished the Public Accounts Committee report into the 1994 Chinook disaster, an MP at the centre of the case...
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30 Nov 2000
Mull of Kintyre MPs call on Blair to end Chinook deadlock
Mull of Kintyre Group of MPs calls on the prime minister to clear the pilots of blame for the 1994 Chinook crash Continue Reading
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29 Nov 2000
MPs boost Chinook fight
At first glance, today's report by MPs of the PublicAccounts Committee (PAC) tells the story of flawed engine control software on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter Continue Reading
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29 Nov 2000
Chinook tragedy demands reform
The Public Accounts Committee report into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash vindicates Computer Weekly's three-year campaign for justice. It... Continue Reading -
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22 Nov 2000
Independent inquiry into Chinook crash
Tony CollinsAn independent inquiry into the Chinook helicopter crash in 1994 is likely to be launched by the House of Lords. It will...
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15 Nov 2000
Did MoD deceive RAF inquiry?
New information shows that the Ministry of Defence withheld information from an air chief marshal about software flaws that could... Continue Reading
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01 Nov 2000
Blair criticised for failure to meet Chinook campaigners
Tony CollinsThe prime minister was criticised in the House of Commons this week for not meeting a delegation of senior MPs and peers over the...
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25 Oct 2000
MoD admits uncertainty over Mull Chinook crash
The Ministry of Defence has altered its stance on the fatal Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, and now admits to uncertainty over the precise events leading up to accident Continue Reading
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25 Oct 2000
MPs fight on for independent Chinook inquiry
As peers and MPs rally to the cause for a new independent inquiry, former defence minister Malcolm Rifkind is among those to criticise the reasons for the... Continue Reading - Feature 20 Sep 2000
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19 Jul 2000
Blair steps into Chinook battle
Tony CollinsThe Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will personally look into the circumstances of the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of...
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05 Jul 2000
Defence minister misleads Commons over Chinook
Independent MP Martin Bell secures the first debate in the House of Commons over the causes of Chinook crash Continue Reading
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28 Jun 2000
Bell champions 'mass of new evidence' on Chinook crash
Tony CollinsIndependent MP Martin Bell has told the House of Commons that a mass of new evidence has emerged over the possible causes of...
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21 Jun 2000
Air chief marshall attacks Chinook evidence
Tony CollinsAir Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten has criticised evidence suggesting that the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash could have...
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14 Jun 2000
Scotland backs Chinook crash report
The Scottish Executive has found that Computer Weekly uncovered new evidence over the reliability of the Fadec (Full Authority Digital Engine Control)... Continue ReadingBy