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Picture credit: n0r Chief Executives should ask their CIOs a very important question: do you honestly know where our data is tonight? Right now there are masses of very valuable and highly sensitive corporate data being carried around on lightweight USB memory sticks, much of it stored without any official sanction or knowledge. The USB sticks may be
There has been more broughaha this week about the latest embarrassing loss of highly sensitive UK Government data (prisoner and convicted persons data), which was blithely downloaded (unencrypted) to a USB memory stick by a PA contractor and then misplaced/ lost. Home Office Minister Tony McNulty was promptly trotted out to expiate departmental responsibility for this latest evidence I sometimes wonder if anyone has bothered to research Tolkien puns on the web. There may already be learned tomes aplenty on just that topic, or there may be precious few, my precious. I digress. The ping in question is, of course, ping.fm – “a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social networks with a Broadband provider VirginMedia are sending snotty letters to “illegal” music downloaders and may clap these dastardly “pirates” in irons if they don’t buckle down and pay attention to Cap’n Branson and his crew.
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The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of mashup development and deployment must always be offset against the inherent risks involved. These risks are primarily questions of security, quality and sustainability.