IBM i Security Tips
by Carol Woodbury
January 2011

Compliance Resolutions for 2011
by Carol Woodbury
President & CTO, SkyView Partners, Inc.

Making New Year resolutions is a lost cause for some because, while done with the best of intentions, they're seldom kept. Because of this, many of you don't even bother. But this year, I'd like to challenge you to make some compliance resolutions so that you don't have to scramble when notified of an upcoming audit. Compliance is a 'lifestyle' so I think compliance resolutions fit right in with the spirit of the New Year resolution.

Here are some suggestions for your 2011 Compliance Resolutions...

SECURITY NEWSSTAND
Compliance means Getting a Handle on Insider Threats
 
When the auditors come, they'll be looking at your internal controls as well as external defenses.

When you talk about security and compliance, you typically think about protecting the organization from external attackers who want to steal sensitive corporate information. But in many cases, the reason companies fare poorly with audits has nothing to do with those bad guys but, rather, with internal threats ...  

 

Experts Forecast Top Seven Trends in Healthcare Information Privacy for 2011

What are the top security and privacy issues facing the healthcare industry in 2011? A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach, and governance were asked to weigh in with their forecasts for 2011.

 

Compliance burdens hamper vulnerability management processes

A new survey has found many organizations are still struggling to deal with patch and configuration management issues and are often lacking efficient processes to deploy patches to systems and applications in a timely manner.

 
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In This Issue
Compliance Resolutions for 2011
Compliance means Getting a Handle on Insider Threats
Experts Forecast Top Seven Trends in Healthcare Information Privacy for 2011
Compliance burdens hamper vulnerability management processes
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