Bosses &#39;too trusting&#39; of outsourcer&#39;s security
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CEOs aren&#39;t taking the care that they should with their customers&#39; data when they outsource, according to a new survey of senior management.
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Outsourcing is seen as an increasing problem and UK firms should not move more jobs abroad, a survey finds.
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Consultant reveals how even banks ignore security The conventional wisdom that banking organisations are more diligent with security was skewered in a presentation at the RSA conference this week.â¦
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IT managers who fret about employees using unauthorized software at work will have another tool to worry about, especially in industries where information management is heavily regulated, like health care and finance.
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Things are pretty informal at this organization, and network security isn't exactly tight. So when the head finance guy needs a little work done on his network account, IT admin simply asks what his password is.
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InfoWorld - IBM owns some of the world&#39;s leading IT security talent, products, and services, but executives with the massive company say it will likely never aim to become what people might label as a true &quot;security vendor.&quot;
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Makers of security software question the thoroughness and accuracy of evaluations.
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Companies are struggling to cope with tighter corporate governance regimes, which might even work against the goal of achieving improved IT security they are partly designed to promote.
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EVERY time the clamour starts over the future of a manager, there are always a few weary souls who can be relied upon to ask &quot;Who else is there?
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Most IT Managers won&#39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies.
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There is a lot of unreasonable second-guessing and finger-pointing that goes on in the business world. It just comes with the territory any time mistakes cost money.
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The body representing India's booming outsourcing business has insisted that the country was a safe place to do business following a British TV news sting showed alleged call centre fraud.
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Survey reveals worrying lack of security Half of us keep our passwords on Post-It notes and over a third of IT professionals say they could still access their company's network if they left their job.â¦
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London, Aug. 19: Yet another fault has been found by British unions with the quality of outsourcing to India but this time perhaps with some justification.
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(InfoWorld) - India's chief outsourcing association has admitted there may be instances of U.S.Â visa abuse by Indian companies, but said the problems are confined to "small, fly-by-night operators." Most of the Indian companies that sponsor large numbers of U.S. visas are "publicly listed and ethically managed," the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) said on Thursday. Any abuse of U.S. visas at such companies would tend to be less than at smaller operations, it added. However, NASSCOM admitted in its statement that small companies are "an area that may need more attention." The association's comments come after further allegations of U.S. visa abuse by two U.S. senators this week. Following their complaints last month aboutÂ alleged misuse of H-1B visas by Indian outsourcers, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, and Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, this weekÂ questioned the use of large numbers of L visasÂ by Indian outsourcers. Information from the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) indicated that the companies using the most H-1B visas are the same firms that use the most L visas, the senators said. That made them suspect that companies are using L visas to circumvent worker protections required under the H-1B program. The allegations come as the U.S. Senate attempts to revive an immigration reform bill which includes a provision for increasing the number of H-1B visas available. Earlier this month, Patni Computer SystemsÂ reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay back-wages to employees brought to the U.S. under the H-1B visa program, who then worked at lower salaries than U.S. workers would get for similar work. Patni is among the top 10 users of H-1B and L-1 visas from India. The senators wrote letters toÂ nine Indian companiesÂ in May, asking them for details on their use of H-1B visas. Among the companies were top Indian outsourcers including Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, and Wipro. The nine companies together account for close to 20,000 visas, the senators said. Companies appear to be increasingly using H-1B visas to displace qualified American workers, Grassley said in May. India's Minister for Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath warned at the time that the complaints could have repercussions at the ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations, since the issue of work permits is a trade issue. Those negotiations fell through this month, not due to work permits but on account of differences over subsidies and tariffs on agriculture products. NASSCOM replied to the two senators in May but has yet to receive any acknowledgement, the association said on Thursday. It said it looks forward to a positive engagement that will address the politicians' concerns withoutÂ disrupting the growing two-way tradeÂ between India and the U.S. The H-1B visa is an employer-sponsored, non-immigrant visa that allows a foreign worker to come to the U.S. temporarily to perform services in a specialty occupation. The L-1 visa, a popular type of L visa, is a non-immigrant visa that allows companies in the U.S. or abroad to transfer certain classes of employee from their foreign operations to a U.S. operation. L visas are designed to give multinational companies the freedom to transfer managers and specialists within the company to their U.S. offices, Durbin said on Tuesday. But some of these companies have hundreds, and, in some cases, thousands of L visa workers, he said. "I find it hard to believe that any one company has that many individuals that are legitimately being transferred within a single year," Durbin said. "I find it even harder to believe that these L visas are being used appropriately when many of the same companies are some of the largest employers of H1-B workers." TCS of Mumbai was the largest user of L visas in 2006, with 4,887, according to a list of the top 20 L users posted by the two senators on their Web sites Tuesday. The list also includes the names of multinational companies such as IBM and Intel. Â
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A panel of executives at the IBM Rational user conference talk about the challenges of using offshore outsourcing firms for development projects.
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But mergers and outsourcing will keep tech job security in flux, according to report.