Data security and privacy
Managers and CIOs face regular data security and privacy issues as they are expected to effectively use technology to share data while still following specific rules and regulations to protect personal information.
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Almost 20 years since the commercialization of the Internet, no business or individual could possibly function without it. But the World Wide Web is not without its flaws. The online threat environment has intensified in the last few years due an increasing pool of sophisticated fraudsters and the availability of new technologies that has facilitated such criminal activities. In this article, Geoff Haydon, Vice President, Asia Pacific, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, identifies the Top 8 forms of online attacks to watch out for in 2010.
As the oldest and largest independent law firm in Hong Kong, Decons attributes it success to serving the needs of its customers local and international. Cora Li, infrastructure manager at Deacons, discusses the challenges that Deacons faced transitioning to a digital world. Li attributes its success to strict adherence to policies and processes that secure all information remains securely accessible. Deacons has undertaken to automate as much of its data management needs to increase employee productivity.
The loss of laptops, memory sticks, smartphones and other portable equipment storing private information is often inevitable; therefore, having an encryption solution on these devices is paramount to the security of today’s mobile society. Organizations, especially government agencies need to take a proactive approach to data security by encrypting and protecting all corporate data
As organizations begin to migrate to the cloud en masse, there is still considerable confusion about how best to handle information security in the cloud. According to the RSA Security Brief entitled “Identity & Data Protection in the Cloud: Best Practices for Establishing Environments of Trust”, what’s needed to make cloud computing a truly ubiquitous services platform is a higher degree of trust, particularly between the owner-providers of cloud resources and the companies that use those resources.
The loss of laptops, memory sticks, smartphones and other portable equipment storing private information is often inevitable; therefore, having an encryption solution on these devices is paramount to the security of today’s mobile society. Organizations, especially government agencies need to take a proactive approach to data security by encrypting and protecting all corporate data.
