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Compliance demands have increased on organisations in recent years. IT systems must support, discovery processes to enact processes and ensure compliance is not an overly onerous task for the organisation. IT is in the unique position of being able to implement compliance measures to benefit the organisation, and has become the stakeholder for many of the latest information security compliance regulations placed on CIOs.
Latest Regulatory compliance news
Facebook sued for $15 billion over privacy violations
Lawyers seek damages for privacy violations considered to have significant legal and business implications
Metropolitan Police gets rapid smartphone analysis system
Controversy surrounds data retention
BlackBerry 7 gets security approval from government
New BlackBerry smartphones can be used at Restricted level
UK man jailed for Facebook hack
12-month sentence should be a deterrent
PAC: Corporates on government contracts should be subject to FoI
Performance of firms on public contracts need to be closely monitored to enable accountability
Insurers spend over £100m on preparing data for Solvency II
Simon Kirby said that the regulation should have been delivered in manageable chunks
BT and TalkTalk fail Ofcom mystery shopper broadband tests
Both ISPs have been warned to follow the regulator’s code of practice more closely
Facebook privacy policy changes proposed to appease Irish government
Facebook intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but privacy advocates saw the move as an inadequate attempt to quell privacy concerns prior to Facebook's planned initial public offering.
Queen's Speech offers details of Snooper's Charter bill
Government to require ISPs to keep call, text and email data
FSA fines Mitsui Sumitomo £3.5m for IT and governance failings
Necessary IT administration system was not fully implemented for nearly two years, says regulator
Regulatory compliance in depth
How to start a business continuity program
Nine steps to keeping your business on the road
CIOs continually strive to be business critical. With a business continuity task they are the key strategist to keeping the whole show running if disaster strikes. Here are some tips on how to tackle that challenge. more...
Creating a BYOD policy
An approach to allowing employees access to business data on their own devices
Allowing staff to use their own hardware cannot be ignored, according to David Clarke, BCS chief executive. CIOs should not shirk the task of establishing the ground rules at work more...
CIO Profile: Turning Point's Ibukun Adebayo on budget discipline
Guiding Turning Point through tough times by keeping costs low
After spells in modelling and journalism, Ibukun Adebayo was late to technology but is now earning plaudits as IT director of health and social care charity Turning Point more...
CIO lessons 4:The science of compliance
Ten hints on managing risk successfully
CIOs will find themselves at the sharp end of breaches in compliance, so it makes sense to get involved in legal and regulatory matters from the very beginning more...
BYOD's legal minefield
CIOs need to be ready for the legal dilemmas of a bring-your-own-device policy
A bring-your-own-device policy can raise technology standards at little cost to the company, but CIOs need to be ready for the legal dilemmas BYOD brings with it more...
15 tips on writing a mobile device usage policy
Mobile rules, OK?
Legal compliance, cost cutting, data security and industrial espionage are all reasons why your company should be drawing up a policy for mobile device usage more...
Three tips on designing a contract exit strategy
Before you go into a new contract, agree a way out
Before you go into a new contract, agree a way out: exit strategies are often expensively overlooked more...
The Rimini Street question
What does Oracle vs. Rimini Street mean for the Software Support Market?
The third party software maintenance model pioneered by Rimini Street could be curtailed and leave a lot of enterprises hurting badly more...
Public sector data handling still lacks good governance
A round up of the most significant public sector IT stories
A look at the big public sector stories recently shows a worrying lack of control over citizen's data. Still, at least smartphones can now be tax-refundable more...
CIO Profile: Stephen Hayward's commanding presence at Spire Healthcare
From submarines to Spire
Stephen Hayward swapped four-month stints in submarines for a career in healthcare IT, but says leading teams of experts is the same on land as it is beneath the waves more...
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Analysis
Financial tracking lessons for CIOs
Financial executives and chief information officers are beginning to re-evaluate their financial reporting practices, says Ankita Tyagi at Aberdeen Group more...
Opinion
Outsourcing: a source of weakness?
Handing systems development and management over to a third party can leave your company without the skills needed to manage contracting and procurement more...
Debate
How email archiving policy impacts FoI requests
CIOs need to be aware of changes to the enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act and how they manage email argues Andres Kohn of Proofpoint. more...
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