• Start up offers Saas app to manage data-breach incidents

  If your company suffered a data breach, would you know what to do to comply with state, federal and local law? Start-up Co3 Systems is offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application to tackle that unhappy task, tracking how a corporate data-loss incident is handled.

• IIIS: More pictures from the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium

  Data governance, risk, compliance and much more

• Companies explore private virtual worlds

  Meetings, conferences and training programs in a 3D virtual world such as Second Life can be more engaging and productive than traditional online sessions and phone calls, and much less expensive than face-to-face meetings requiring travel. But some companies aren't willing to take on the security and compliance risks of using a public platform and are instead opting for private virtual worlds created behind the corporate firewall.

• Legal risks of hosting data offshore highlighted

  Australian Cloud providers have been given a boost following warnings from a legal expert on the risks associated with hosting data offshore.

• Encryption adoption driven by PCI, fear of cyberattacks

  A survey of more than 900 IT managers shows that adoption of encryption in their organizations is being driven by two main factors, anxiety about possible cyberattacks and the need to meet the payment-card industry (PCI) data security standards.

Whitepapers about compliance

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  Secure File Sharing in the Cloud: Maximizing the Benefits

  Unmanaged cloud-based services can put organizations at risk for a data breach or non-compliance. Learn about the factors you should consider for deploying an enterprise-class secure file sharing solution in the cloud—including the benefits and risks of public, private, and hybrid options.

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  8 Critical Requirements for Secure Mobile File Sharing

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  The eGuide to Data Movement and Governance: Helping Business Professionals Stay Up to Speed

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  Backup and Recovery as we Know it is Changing