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Compliance: Organizations Worry About Compliance and Risk Management for the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

While Cloud Computing continues to grow in hype and number of deployments, seemingly out of step of the trends, many IT departments remain unconvinced that cloud computing is ready for prime time.  A survey by ISACA found that 45 percent

Compliance: Watchdog SEC Struggles with Internal Bookkeeping

By Dick Weisinger

While the SEC is tasked with being the watchdog of corporate America’s financial reports, their own books appear to be a bit of a mess.  A report by the General Accountability Office (GAO) is reporting serious problems in the recordkeeping

Security: Compliance is Expensive, but Ultimately Saves Money

By Dick Weisinger

The average cost of security compliance for a company is $3.5 million.   That sounds high.  But a study by the Ponemon Institute found that companies that haven’t made the upfront investment in security compliance end up on average paying

Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley: Have Non-Compliance Penalties Really Been that Bad?

By Dick Weisinger

Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) has had companies worried for 8 years since it was passed in the summer of 2002.  Is it worth the worry and the huge effort that it entails to comply?  A study out this month from

Records Management: Record Destruction is a Major Pain Point

By Dick Weisinger

Records Management is all about classification and retention policies.  Most organizations understand the concepts, but the implementation can be hard.  The area that turns out to be the stickiest for most companies to come to grips with is record destruction.