The burden of compliance
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For 18 months, Office Depot executives have delved into the minutiae of the retailer&#39;s financial controls, scrutinizing how it accounts for the goods it buys and testing to see, for example, that daily sales match daily deposits.
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In a new wave of global outsourcing, personal chores are moving offshore, and this is leading to some daunting challenges, both economic and cultural.
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(Source: Tizor)  With the severity of recent data breaches affecting brand name merchants, anxiety in the security and compliance community has reached a new high. Questions are being raised about what it means to be PCI compliant, particularly in the context of protecting sensitive data from data breaches.
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Analysis No delay in EC anti-trust compliance
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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(Source: Symantec)  At a high level, the 12 major security requirements under PCI seem fairly easy to implement and maintain. Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that attaining and maintaining compliance is a much more complex endeavor. This paper breaks down each requirement and details how Symantec solutions can help you get, and stay compliant.
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Monitoring systems on the central LAN for personal and proprietary data â something industry analysts estimate 86 percent of companies must do to comply with one or more regulations, such as GLBA, HIPAA, and Sarbanes-Oxley â is already an enormous challenge. Then consider the extra complexities introduced as this content sprawls to remote offices and partner locations.
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IBM's Solution for Compliance in a Regulated Environment is a suite of middleware tools that includes document and data management, application integration, business process management and collaboration features.
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NEW YORK - The barrage of internal controls and enhanced reporting requirements demanded by the US Securities and Exchange Commission has created a climate of &quot;disclosure on steroids&quot; that has many counsel uncertain and badly stressed about making a
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Times are tough in the soft-drink bottling business.
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Compliance with federal regulations requires extreme care. On the other hand, users are walking out of your office carrying high-risk data on mobile devices.  What's an IT manager to do?
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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Interoperability is the great challenge facing the open-source movement.
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(Source: Qualys)  Security provisions of GLBA are complex and process intensive. This guide explains how on-demand security audits make GLBA compliance easier to achieve.
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(Source: SunGard)  It is through the delicate balance of both downstream and upstream needs that financial services oganizations will satisfy internal requirements for marrying business - and compliance - side responsibilities and do it in a way that delivers on the true promise of creating, enabling and sustaining a culture of compliance.
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The list of major challenges confronting President Bush as he prepares to take the oath of office for the second time is exhausting.
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Organizations face increasing pressures to optimize IT performance while reducing IT costs.  Until now, few organizations had tools to increase Service Level Compliance, adopt ITIL and convince C-level executives that the IT department aligns with business priorities.  Magnum Technologies' Business Service Management whitepaper explores these issues offering client-proven solutions to current problems facing IT organizations.