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Mobile Security: Smartphones still 'Enterprise Unready'

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise networks are increasingly being accessed by mobile devices and that’s making a lot of IT professionals uncomfortable.  A recent report found that only 9 percent of organizations are aware of which mobile devices are accessing their networks.  And in…

Business Continuity: Many Organizations Remain Unprepared

By Dick Weisinger

Business continuity is the activity organizations undertake to ensure that all critical business functions remain available to customers and suppliers despite any potentially disruptive events.  The goal is to maintain service, consistence and recoverability under any conditioons.  Business continuity activities are…

Security and BYOD: Security Concerns Increase as BYOD Trend Grows

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly companies are allowing their employees to use their own devices to access corporate data. Amy Cheah, market analyst for Infrastructure at IDC, said that “Widely publicized and high-profile BYOD case studies are further adding to the peer pressure. One in…

Records Management: NARA Grapples with Huge Volumes of Documents and Records

By Dick Weisinger

The National Archives (NARA) is struggling to keep up with managing the massive body of data as records created by government agencies. Records Management has become a serious problem for the federal government.  David Ferriero, Chief Archivist of the United…

Regulatory Compliance: Staff Stretched with Too Much to Do in Too Little Time

By Dick Weisinger

Increased responsibilities and increasing complexity in compliance-related regulations is stretching the efforts of compliance professionals.  There’s too much to do and too little time.  A recent report from Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance finds that compliance professionals must make time…