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Data and the law - are you compliant?

The Data Protection Act 1998. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards. The Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. The Human Rights Act 1998. The Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Financial Services Authority. Sarbanes Oxley 404. ...

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30/12/2009 | COA - article 1.pdf | VIEW

Data architectures and security issues

The last article covered how organisations are faced with a complex, intertwined and often changing set of laws, rules and regulations that often pull against each other. The biggest problem for many organisations is in layering the needs of one set of regulations against the needs of another - without breaking the previous one. At a legal level, it is hard enough, yet solving the legal issues may have massive benefits to the organisation when it comes to the facilitation of business processes, as well as securing intellectual property assets across and beyond the organisation. ...

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31/12/2009 | COA - article 2.pdf | VIEW

The actuality of a compliance oriented architecture

In earlier articles, we have looked at how the data is the most important part of any environment, and how a compliance oriented architecture (COA) can help in maintaining information security, as well as how it can enable true audit and governance compliance. ...

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01/01/2010 | COA - article 3.pdf | VIEW

To lose one set of data...

Data is far more important than the devices it resides upon, and building a compliance oriented architecture (COA) that secures the data is increasingly important. This presentation looks at the issues and presents a framework for a COA ...

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05/08/2010 | To lose one set of data may be.pdf | VIEW

To lose one set of data may be regarded as misfortune...

Data security is a "top of mind" problem, yet a lot of focus has been more on the security of the IT infrastructure, rather than the security of the data itself. This audio slide presentation (requiring BrighTALK registration) looks at the options available ...

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46 minutes | 05/08/2010 | 533 | VIEW

ERP for IT – fad, red herring or life-saver?

Increasingly, there is a need to be able to manage the whole of an IT platform, not only at the server, storage and network levels, but also at the software, performance and even the datacentre facility level. This has led to a new term being bandied around – enterprise resource planning for information technology – ERP for IT or just ERP4IT. However, to see whether this has any value to the business, it is first important to see how we have got to where we are today. ...

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27/06/2011 | ERP for IT - cw.pdf | VIEW