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Cloud Computing Guide For Small Business - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 09 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 1. The growth of cloud computing is astounding. It is estimated that the worldwide cloud computing market is $8 billion with the U.S. market accounting for approximately 40% of that: $3.2 billion.  According to Gartner’s 2011 predictions, number one on their list of Top Strategic Technologies is Cloud Computing. Gartner also predicts that the SaaS market will hit $14 billion in 2013.
  • 2. Cloud Computing Software Solutions VS Desktop Applications The most common reason why small businesses choose cloud computing solutions over desktop applications is this: It is less expensive because you pay a small monthly amount instead of a one-time fee as it works now with traditional desktop software. On a cash-flow basis, it is less costly because your cloud based apps are often slightly less costly than an annual purchase or upgrade for common programs.  However, you have to look closely at the pricing plans and details for each application.
  • 3. Cloud Computing Solutions are available all the time – no matter where you are. For some business users that operate virtual offices or operate remotely on different machines depending on location and they need the application to be accessible from a web browser. That is one of the biggest advantages of cloud computing– it is available wherever you have access to a computer and browser.
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  • When most small business owners or new software companies talk about cloud computing, they usually mean an application that runs from the web and not directly from your not-connected-to-the-Internet desktop (software as a service or SaaS).
  • Cloud computing software solutions, for our purposes here, mean software that has a low monthly fee rather than a one-time capital expenditure. Just about any business function you can think of has a cloud based solution, from phone services to marketing to operations to finance.
  • You may already be relying on cloud computing without even realizing it. Think about your email provider: Are they offering some sort of anti-spam protection? Or what about your anti-virus program? Are they constantly updating and securing your desktop application? They are delivering service from the cloud, without on-premise hardware and software.  This is a great example of how SaaS has infiltrated our work and software installations without us thinking about it.
  • sandy ingram on 09 Dec 10
     
    "In this guide, we suggest 16 things you should consider before deciding whether cloud computing is a good match for your business. Read more about how small businesses use cloud computing."
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Volatile markets may tempt hedge-fund fraud - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 21 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Unlike mutual funds, hedge funds are allowed to use trading techniques like selling stocks short and using borrowed money and regulators do not require them to make their performance or other details public.
  • "We are experiencing some of the most difficult times ever, and difficult times create desperate people who may do desperate things,"
  • sandy ingram on 21 Nov 08
     
    "If staff suddenly leave a hedge fund, investors should pay attention."
  • sandy ingram on 21 Nov 08
     
    Volatile markets may tempt hedge-fund fraud
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Data Breaches - Beyond the Impact of Fines - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • A recent article in the Tech Journal (techjournalsouth.com) delves into the effects of data breaches, using survey information to demonstrate how they affect customer loyalty and confidence.
  • "The widespread impact of data breaches like Epsilon and Sony PlayStation, where millions of consumers were impacted around the world, is making customers more cautious about conducting business with certain financial institutions and retailers," said Jackie Gilbert, vice president of marketing and co-founder at SailPoint. "These companies obviously spent millions to recover from these data breaches, but the longer term and harder-to-measure costs will be the erosion of customer loyalty and decline in brand perception."
  • Case in point: 16% of Americans, 24% of Britons and 26% of Australians said they would no longer do business with a bank, credit card company or retailer if a security breach occurred that potentially exposed their personal and financial information to theft."
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  • Although regulatory fines are painful, the loss of customers and business should really concern businesses.  Organizations and Infosec Professionals (CIO's, CISO's, etc.) would do well to take note of these results. 
  • sandy ingram on 30 Sep 11
     
    "The widespread impact of data breaches like Epsilon and Sony PlayStation, where millions of consumers were impacted around the world, is making customers more cautious about conducting business with certain financial institutions and retailers," said Jackie Gilbert, vice president of marketing and co-founder at SailPoint.
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Mobile malware, "whaling" top challenges of 2011, says IBM report - SC Magazine US - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • To address these new challenges, the report said, enterprises need to shape their risk exposure, communication, end-user education and technology in a delicate balance.
  • One of the newest vectors of attack – the so-called “bring your own device” approach – has sprung up from the burgeoning market for smartphones and tablets and their adaption into the enterprise network, the report said. Security issues seen on the mobile platform are rising with the market – with double the number of mobile exploit releases that were seen in 2010.
  • Third-party app markets, a Wild West of often unregulated offerings, are the primary bazaar for malicious software created to attack mobile phones.
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  • Infected mobile applications can also come from peer-to-peer networks hosted on websites
  • This year's breaches have highlighted the emerging risk of “whaling,” a variant of spear phishing that targets "big fish,” or high-level personnel
  • Of further concern for IT security professionals is the rise of professional teams charged with collecting intellectual property and strategic intelligence, the report found.
  • In addition, so-called hacktivist groups, such as LulzSec and Anonymous, have used well-worn attack techniques, such as SQL injection, to successfully target websites and computer networks for political ends rather than financial gain.
  • sandy ingram on 30 Sep 11
     
    An unprecedented number of successful attacks on corporate networks in the first half of the year illustrates that "basic network security is not just a technical problem, but rather a complex business challenge,"
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Picking an anti-fraud team » Adotas - 0 views

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Privacy Fraud Advertising Best Practices

shared by sandy ingram on 27 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Individuals in areas such as sales and marketing will absorb fraud identification, reporting, and prevention responsibilities.
  • This will prove to be ineffective for the following reasons:
  • 1. The sales and marketing staffs are not trained to identify fraud and they cannot keep up with the ever-changing tactics
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  • 2. Associates are conflicted when faced with a fraud incident. They are not motivated to report fraud and their compensation structure dissuades them from reporting incidents.
  • 3. Business goals are not aligned appropriately, which naturally moved fraud last on the priority list for the associates assigned the additional responsibilities.
  • 4. While the internal attempt is made, no time is spent on partner due diligence and monitoring.
  • Organizations will benefit in the long term by hiring dedicated staff.
  • This tactic is one component of my company’s Best Practice approach to doing business.
  • When recruiting for your team, expect to receive a small number of resumes compared to the average you may receive for other positions
  • Do not worry about where to post the job description, just get it posted.
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20% of Businesses Will Get Rid of All IT Assets As They Move to Cloud, Gartner Predicts - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • But it's not just cloud computing that is driving a movement toward "decreased IT hardware assets," in Gartner's words. Virtualization and employees running personal desktops and laptops on corporate networks are also reducing the need for company-owned hardware.
  • Gartner's prediction was part of a release Wednesday that highlights nine key predictions that will affect IT organizations and users this year and beyond.
  • sandy ingram on 22 Jan 10
     
    The shift toward cloud services hosted outside the enterprise's firewall will necessitate a major shift in the IT hardware markets, and shrink IT staff, Gartner said. "The need for computing hardware, either in a data center or on an employee's desk, will not go away," Gartner said. "However, if the ownership of hardware shifts to third parties, then there will be major shifts throughout every facet of the IT hardware industry. For example, enterprise IT budgets will either be shrunk or reallocated to more-strategic projects; enterprise IT staff will either be reduced or reskilled to meet new requirements, and/or hardware distribution will have to change radically to meet the requirements of the new IT hardware buying points."
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HITECH now specifically requires the business associate to notify their partner so that... - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 02 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The total impact to the institution is difficult to quantify. Obviously no organization wants the negative press. It's the kind of thing that loses patients and makes the institution less appealing when trying to attract physicians.
  • Under the breach notification requirements of the HITECH Act (Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), lost or stolen unencrypted records such as these requires notification to Health and Human Services for the public posting of the institution to HHS' "wall of shame," or public list of breaches involving more than 500 individuals. If you go to the HHS website right now, you'll see this incident listed there -- along with an ever-increasing laundry list of other institutions in the same boat.
  • This very public example of HITECH in action underscores just one of the many ways that the law has altered the way that healthcare does business. While the full impact of the law won't be seen for quite some time to come, we're starting to see some radical changes in the way that hospitals approach security and compliance.
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  • Security Breaches From a provider point of view, probably the biggest impact from a security and compliance standpoint stems from the relatively strict breach disclosure requirements within the law. Covered entities not only need to notify in writing the individuals whose data was lost, but they also are required to notify HHS of the data loss.
  • Vendor Impact In addition to expanded disclosure provisions for business associates, HITECH also changes the landscape for them in that they now have a higher bar to meet in terms of their own security requirements
  • Under the law, business associates now have to meet the same bar as covered entities when it comes to the security rule.
  • However, covered entities are not alone in shouldering the burden of these more stringent rules. Business associates also have a role to play under the new provisions. Business associates now need to make sure that they report possible breaches to partners/customers and that they provide enough data for the covered entities to tell who was impacted and what type of data it was -- in other words, enough data for covered entities to fulfill their disclosure obligations. Whereas in the past a breach might occur at a business associate with nobody at the covered entity the wiser
  • HITECH now specifically requires the business associate to notify their partner so that the individuals impacted can be apprised.
  • Clearly, as applications move outside of the provider (for example, due to cloud computing) and more and more vendors move in to participate, rising numbers of vendors, hosting providers, and other service providers find themselves becoming "business associates" and inheriting security requirements that they're unfamiliar with. Even vendors not specifically targeting the healthcare market may find themselves in the direct path of the regs and obligated to change how they do business in response.
  • Vendors seeking to court healthcare clients will now need to pitch not only functionality but a compliance message as well.
  • sandy ingram on 02 Aug 10
     
    Just a few weeks ago, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center learned a hard lesson. If you didn't see the news reports, the N.Y.-based healthcare provider notified over 130,000 individuals that their records -- including diagnostic information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and other information of use to identity thieves -- was potentially lost."
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Survey Finds Gap in Attitudes Between the Cloud "Haves" and "Have-Nots" - ReadWriteCloud - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware.
  • London-based communications SaaS provider Mimecast has announced the results of its second annual Cloud Adoption Survey. The survey, conducted by independent research firm Loudhouse, assessed the attitudes of IT decision-makers in the U.S. and UK about cloud computing
  • The majority of organizations now use some cloud-based services. The report found 51% are now using at least one cloud-based application. Adoption rates for U.S. businesses are slightly ahead of the UK with 56% of respondents using at least one cloud-based application, compared to 50% in the UK
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  • Two thirds of businesses are considering adopting cloud computing. 66% of businesses say they are considering adopting cloud-based services in the future, with once again, U.S. businesses leaning more towards adoption than their UK peers (70% of U.S. businesses, and 50% of UK ones).
  • Email, security, and storage are the most popular cloud services. 62% of the organizations that use cloud computing are using a cloud-based email application. Email services are most popular with mid-size businesses (250-1000 employees) with 70% of organizations this size using the cloud for email. Smaller businesses (under 250 employees) are most likely to use the cloud for security services, and larger enterprises (over 1000 employees) most likely to opt for cloud storage services.
  • Existing cloud users are satisfied. Security is not considered to be an issue by existing cloud users: 57% say that moving data to the cloud has resulted in better security, with 58% saying it has given them better control of their data. 73% say it has reduced the cost of their IT infrastructure and 74% believe the cloud has alleviated the internal resource pressures.
  • Security fears are still a barrier. 62% of respondents believe that storing data on servers outside of the business is a significant security risk. Interestingly, this number was higher for users of cloud applications than it was for non-users (only 59% of non-users thought it was risky, while 67% of users did.)
  • Some think the benefits of the cloud may be overstated.54% of respondents said the potential benefits of the cloud are overstated by the IT industry, and 58% indicated they believed that replacing legacy IT solutions will almost always cost more than the benefits of new IT.
  • "The research shows that there is a clear divide within the IT industry on the issue of cloud computing," says Mimecast CEO and co-founder Peter Bauer. "While those organisations that have embraced cloud services are clearly reaping the rewards, there are still a number who are put off by the 'cloud myths' around data security and the cost of replacing legacy IT
  • It is now up to cloud vendors to educate businesses and end users to ensure that these concerns do not overshadow the huge potential cost, security and performance benefits that cloud computing can bring."
  • sandy ingram on 24 Aug 10
     
    Existing cloud users are satisfied. Security is not considered to be an issue
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Three Things That Every CEO Should Know About Cyber Security Spending - The Firewall - ... - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • ONE: If your enterprise isn’t in energy, defense, or finance, it’s not a high priority target so don’t spend money like it is.
  • TWO: If you do lead a company in one of those 3 sectors, there’s nothing on the market today that will stop an adversary from stealing your most valuable data. The best that you can hope for is to raise the cost to an adversary to mount a successful attack against you, which means he’ll target a less well-protected company instead. This is known as the You-Don’t-Have-To-Outrun-The-Bear School of Security.
  • THREE: Your IT department’s job is not to protect you. It’s to protect the enterprise’s network. That makes you and your C-level colleagues the “10 ring” of the target.
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  • Most C-level executives are inundated with far more material then they could ever read, so this post will be short and to the point. If you’re a CEO, CIO, or other C-level executive, here are three things that you need to know to avoid over-spending on cyber security:
  • I’m giving a free webinar at 10am (Pacific time) this morning for UBS and their clients on the evolving state of cyber warfare in general and risks to C-level executives in particular. In addition to surveying the threats, I’ll offer some advice on how executives can defend themselves. Here’s the information you’ll need to join the call: Participant Toll-free: 800-768-5109 Toll: 212-231-2909 Code: 21488152
  • sandy ingram on 15 Nov 10
     
    "Most C-level executives are inundated with far more material then they could ever read, so this post will be short and to the point. If you're a CEO, CIO, or other C-level executive, here are three things that you need to know to avoid over-spending on cyber security:"
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IT worker gets prison after stealing data for online surveys - 0 views

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Privacy Security Fraud employees identity theft medical

shared by sandy ingram on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Between January and April of this year, Giang filled out 382 surveys before the company that was paying for them, StayWell, figured out what was going on. StayWell had been offering UC employees the gift vouchers as incentives to fill out health surveys, but it grew wise to the scam.
  • Giang only used part of the Social Security numbers of his co-workers while filling out the survey, his lawyer states in a sentencing memorandum. "Mr Giang never intended to steal their identity, and other than losing the opportunity to participate in StayWell's marketing surveys, the victims did not lose anything," says the Oct. 20 memorandum asking the judge for probation instead of jail time.
  • sandy ingram on 02 Nov 10
     
    A former IT staffer has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing sensitive information belonging to his co-workers and using the data to make money filling out online health surveys. Cam Giang, 31, was fired from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center earlier this year after investigators discovered that he'd been using the names, birthdays and Social Security numbers of other UCSF employees to fill out hundreds of online surveys. The point was to collect online vouchers, worth US$100 each.
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The collaborative web in action - CEO Forum Group - 0 views

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  • it is a sad fact that too few CEOs make the connection this current wave of the Internet and any change in the way business works. This I believe is a pity and it could cost businesses money.
  • For many CEOs, I would suggest, this trend is one which they understand only tangentially – perhaps when they see their home telecommunications bill if they have children – or when they meet one of their generation Y employees, who cheekily ‘demands’ instant messaging or an iPhone as part of their salary package.
  • it is the platform of networked based colllaboration tools, created on the public Internet but increasingly being adopted in the workplace, which will set apart the successful businesses of the first two decades of the 21st century.
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  • When a business works out how to use collaboration tools properly, it can open up an entirely new way of improving resource allocation, driving innovation, getting closer to customers and partners, taking costs out of the business and reducing time-to-market. Collaboration, based on the network as the platform, is even able to help reduce the impact of business on the environment.
  • sandy ingram on 20 Nov 08
     
    "...it is the platform of networked based colllaboration tools, created on the public Internet but increasingly being adopted in the workplace, which will set apart the successful businesses of the first two decades of the 21st century."
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Most Large Enterprises Already Active in Cloud Computing: Survey - Cloud Computing - Ne... - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 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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