Is your precious data running wild?

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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 [...]

Mashups – tasty recipé or difficult to swallow?

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 [...]

Latest Government data fiasco

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 [...]

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