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Cloud Computing and Security: SAML ID security Method of Choice for the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. A report by  identity management tools specialist OneLogin found that: 97 percent of SaaS vendors say that they back SAML 67 percent of…

Big Data: The Bar for ‘Big’ is Continually Rising

By Dick Weisinger

Today’s world of Big Data is one that involves the processing of huge amounts of data.  Today, systems that are petabyte-plus in size qualify as ‘Big Data’.  But the bar that defines big is rising at an accelerating rate. It…

Enterprise Information Management: One-Third of Top Organizations To be Hit with Information Crises

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations become overwhelmed in the management of their data, Gartner is predicting that within the next three years that one-third of Fortune 100 organizations will be hit with an “information crisis.”  These crises will be precipitated by inability of…

Information Governance: Consortium Founded to Reform and Modernize IG

By Dick Weisinger

The Information Governance Initiative (IGI), a cross-disciplinary consortium and think tank, with the goal of reforming and modernizing information governance, was recently formed.  The group will publish research, benchmarking surveys, and guidance for practitioners of information governance. Specific areas where…

Information Governance: Many Records Management Programs Suffer from Large Gaps

By Dick Weisinger

A majority of Records Management (RM) and Information Governance (IG) programs now in place lack the key elements that are needed in order to be effective.  That’s a conclusion of a report sponsored by AIIM, ARMA, Iron Mountain and Cohasset Associates.…