Social Networking and the Blended Business Environment: What is being done in the name of your domain?

Seeded on Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:38 PM EST (IT Knowledge Exchange)

Author David Scott ("I.T. WARS") discusses the perils and benefits of social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) in the business environment, and some solutions to manage risk.

business, it, social-networking, computer-security, human-resources, facebook, social-networks, social-network, hr, linkedin

Planners Urged To Develop Data Protection Plans: New Laws Penalize Privacy Breaches

Seeded on Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:13 AM EST (Travel Procurement)

Anyone else here reading "I.T. WARS"? I had to read parts of this book as part of my employee orientation at a new job.

technology, business, security, privacy, identity-theft, id-theft, content-management, business-management, acceptable-use-policy, data-theft

Conflicker Virus: Systems - the Bigger They Come, the Harder They Fall

Seeded on Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:38 AM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

In the realm of risk, unmanaged possibilities become probabilities: Breaches are due to a lagging business culture. Absent a new eCulture, breaches will increase. Required reading is "I.T.

business, security, it, virus, malware, malicious, i-t, conflicker

Data Breaches Largely Due to Lagging Business Culture

Seeded on Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:26 AM EST (Mt. Airy News)

Most companies enjoy "security" insofar as they haven't been targeted, or had an employee make a human error with catastrophic exposure.

technology, business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions

Kaiser: Data breached, identity fraud reported - should have read book "I.T. WARS"

Seeded on Sat Feb 7, 2009 9:30 AM EST (CNET.com)

Most companies enjoy "security" insofar as they haven't been targeted, or had an employee make a human error with catastrophic exposure.

technology, business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions

Supercomputer as powerful as 2m laptops | The Australian

Seeded on Tue Feb 3, 2009 5:54 AM EST (Australian News Network)

Yikes! Now data breaches can happen millions of times faster, and perhaps in millions more instances. Secure your business and its future - Read "I.T.

business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions, content-management

Destroy Fannie Data? Overdue: eCulture

Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:41 PM EST (WBAL TV - Baltimore)

While various systems of security are important, no system can overcome laxity, ignorance, or deliberate intent to harm. Necessary is a sustained culture and awareness; an efficient prism through which every activity is viewed from a security perspective prior to action.

technology, business, security, fraud, destruction, practice, policy, us-news, data, identity-theft

Cybercrime costing firms $1trillion a year: McAfee - Security

Seeded on Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:54 AM EST (CBR - News)

Price Waterhouse Cooper and Carnegie-Mellon's CyLab have recent surveys that show the senior executive class to be, basically, clueless regarding IT risk and its tie to overall enterprise (business) risk.

business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions, content-management

Beware of Facebook 'Friends' Who May Trash Your Laptop

Seeded on Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:49 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

technology, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions, content-management

Largest Credit Breach Ever Reported Inauguration Day

Seeded on Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:45 AM EST (infopackets.com)

business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions, content-management

E-Mail Outage Flummoxes White House, Washington Post: Staffers Left Baffled, Annoyed; "This Is The Freakin' West Wing" - CBS News

Seeded on Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:53 AM EST (CBS News)

technology, business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions

MoD admits 440 computer data devices have been lost or stolen in the past year

Seeded on Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:21 AM EST (The Herald)

We practice Disaster Awareness, Preparedness and Recovery (DAPR). Basically, best practice dictates that you first strive to prevent disaster - DR sounds reactive.

technology, business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions

Check bank statements after data breach | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

Seeded on Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:11 AM EST (The News Tribune)

business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions, content-management

Another Day, Another Breach - Monster

Seeded on Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:40 PM EST (Injuryboard National News Desk)

business, it, infection, virus, worm, data-theft, it-security, data-breach, business-security

Windows virus infects 9m computers

Seeded on Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:13 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions, content-management

Smash those old hard drives

Seeded on Fri Jan 9, 2009 3:38 PM EST (IOL)

I like to pass along things that work, in hopes that good ideas make their way back to me. Data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture – and people aren't getting the training they need.

business, security, fraud, practice, policy, identity-theft, risk, content, solutions, content-management

PricewaterhouseCoopers Urges Financial Organizations to Increase Vigilance and Oversight of Information Privacy and Data Security

Seeded on Fri Jan 9, 2009 3:15 PM EST (msnbc.com)

NEW YORK, Jan.

business, press-releases, company-news, msnbci, research-analysis-and-reports

Cyberthieves mine online for corporate data nuggets

Seeded on Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:11 AM EST (USA Today)

usatoday

Ohio college says employee data posted on Web on Yahoo! News

Seeded on Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:08 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

In the realm of risk, unmanaged possibilities become probabilities: These data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture. As CIO, I'm always looking for ways to help my business and IT teams, and ad hoc measures of various vendors, contractors, etc.

security, identity-theft, id-theft, information-security, data-theft, it-security, data-breach, business-security, it-solutions

Sarkozy bank account raided in internet scam

Seeded on Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:32 PM EDT (Telegraph)

In the realm of risk, unmanaged possibilities become probabilities: These data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture.

business, id-theft, data-theft, data-breach, business-security

WESTPAC recalls uo to 2000 Visa cards | Herald Sun

Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:52 PM EDT (Australian News Network)

WESTPAC recalls uo to 2000 Visa cards. Another business that needs to run to the library for "I.T. Wars: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium." I urge every business person and IT person, management or staff, to get hold of a copy of this book.

business, security, it, data-theft, laptop-theft, stolen-laptops, eculture