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Most Large Enterprises Already Active in Cloud Computing: Survey - Cloud Computing - Ne... - 0 views

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  • The results indicate that "there are more cloud implementations within the enterprise than people were aware of," Jay Fry, vice president of marketing for the cloud computing division at CA Technologies, told eWEEK. The report indicates that IT administrators are starting to get some visibility on what the various groups within the organization are working on, he said. As more people begin to discuss the cloud within the enterprise, the visibility will continue to improve, said Fry.
  • In the past, there were "rogue deployments" that the company’s IT staff didn’t even know about, because the individual line of business was purchasing software-as-a-service offerings without involving IT.
  • Collaboration tools such as hosted e-mail, antivirus and spam filtering and Web conferencing software accounted for a bulk of cloud deployments, at 75 percent, according to the report
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  • The primary incentive for initially going to the cloud is to trim costs, he said. While that result was expected, the report found that IT staff considered other benefits, such as agility and adaptability as soon as six months after deployment, said Fry.
  • Many large organizations are already active in cloud computing in some form and are planning more deployments, according to a CA Technologies study.
  • sandy ingram on 21 Dec 10
     
    "More than 80 percent of surveyed enterprises and 92 percent of the largest enterprises, have at least one cloud service, the report found. Additionally, more than half, or 52 percent, of organizations using the cloud claimed to have more than six cloud services."
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forbes: The Hidden Cost of Privacy - 0 views

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Privacy Security Cost Forbes

shared by sandy ingram on 30 May 09 - No Cached
  • Special interest groups and lawyers claim they are defenders of individual privacy. But all that red tape is causing more harm to consumers than good.
  • In a world of tight budgets and sacrificed programs, one sector has continued to grow with the speed and choking effectiveness of kudzu: regulations around privacy.More than 300 privacy-related laws are on the books, in both Washington, D.C. and state capitals. Privacy-related consulting services provided by law and accounting firms are a $500-million-a-year business and have been growing at double digits.
  • In other instances, the American approach to privacy occasionally produces too much of it, notably when it comes to medical research. Federal privacy laws involving health records are often so stringently interpreted by bureaucrats that studies involving life-threatening diseases have had to be scaled back or canceled. A pioneering, decades-long study of strokes and heart attacks shut down this year when researchers weren't able to get the necessary patient-consent forms signed.
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  • A recent report from the Institute of Medicine says privacy laws have created a crisis for U.S. researchers. Lawrence O. Gostin, the Georgetown University law professor who presided over the study, complains that the consent forms that are a centerpiece of many laws don't even do a good job in protecting medical privacy. "Patients don't understand what they are signing," he says.
  • Lawyers who spend their workdays preparing privacy-related notices freely admit that scarcely anyone reads them. The yearly privacy updates from banks required by the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act are commonly cited as especially useless; no less an authority than Ralph Nader says the mailings are among the biggest wastes of paper in human history."Whenever I am speaking, I ask the audience if anyone has ever made use of one of those forms," says Kirk J. Nahra, an attorney with Wiley Rein in Washington, D.C. "If even one person raises their hand, I am amazed."
  • sandy ingram on 30 May 09
     
    Special interest groups and lawyers claim they are defenders of individual privacy. But all that red tape is causing more harm to consumers than good.
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FTC Announces Expanded Business Education Campaign on 'Red Flags' Rule - 0 views

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Red Flags Rule FTC Privacy Security Enforcement

shared by sandy ingram on 30 Jul 09 - Cached
  • The Red Flags Rule is an anti-fraud regulation, requiring “creditors” and “financial institutions” with covered accounts to implement programs to identify, detect, and respond to the warning signs, or “red flags,” that could indicate identity theft. The financial regulatory agencies, including the FTC, developed the Rule, which was mandated by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA).
  • The FTC’s Red Flags Web site, www.ftc.gov/redflagsrule, offers resources to help entities determine if they are covered and, if they are, how to comply with the Rule. It includes an online compliance template that enables companies to design their own Identity Theft Prevention Program through an easy-to-do form, as well as articles directed to specific businesses and industries, guidance manuals, and Frequently Asked Questions to help companies navigate the Rule.
  • sandy ingram on 30 Jul 09
     
    The three-month extension, coupled with this new guidance, should enable businesses to gain a better understanding of the Rule and any obligations that they may have under it. These steps are consistent with the House Appropriations Committee's recent request that the Commission defer enforcement in conjunction with additional efforts to minimize the burdens of the Rule on health care providers and small businesses with a low risk of identity theft problems. Today's announcement that the Commission will delay enforcement of the Rule until November 1, 2009, does not affect other federal agencies' enforcement of the original November 1, 2008, compliance deadline for institutions subject to their oversight.
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