Tag: Cloud Compliance

While moving email to the cloud can be relatively straightforward, moving messaging and collaboration channels to Office 365 raises a significant number of questions pertaining to how those communications are captured and preserved for regulatory compliance and e-discovery purposes. Office 365 offers native archiving features which require thorough analysis to ...

Establishing a sustainable preservation plan is key for compliance and risk management. Onna’s Ish Alaoui outlines five key factors to weigh when looking to preserve data from cloud-based applications. The number of cloud-based applications and productivity tools used in the workplace is growing by the day. From Slack and GSuite ...

Many corporate leaders are hesitant to move to the cloud because of security concerns. netlogx’s Clayton Calvert explains that while data breaches are continuing apace, cloud security is entirely possible and manageable. Cloud adoption has continued to grow in the last decade, and recent reports by the analyst firm Gartner ...

In the advent of automated GRC tools, data-compliance professionals are shooting themselves in the feet by over-relying on old-fashioned spreadsheets. Joe Stanganelli and Alia Luria discuss a better way to manage GRC data. Terry Ray, a senior vice president at cybersecurity-software firm Imperva, is fond of saying that even when ...

Data security is a boardroom issue, a geographical issue and a local issue. The cost of noncompliance can be crippling, both financially and reputationally.

Lesley Maea suggests compliance today could take a cue from Marie Kondo in her Netflix hit, "Tidying Up." To remain safe and secure, use an intranet as a single source of truth. Yes, you read that right: an intranet. Put everything in one place. Then, you can see what you ...

The latest global survey of C-level executives and directors of the macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks that organizations face indicates an increasingly risky year ahead. Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach discusses the risks keeping executives up at night. Overall, 825 C-level executives and directors participated in this year’s global study, with 45 ...

Today, FireMon announces the results of its inaugural State of Hybrid Cloud Security Survey, which polled more than 400 information security professionals about their practices maintaining network security across hybrid cloud environments. The survey uncovered three primary areas of concern: the cloud business and cloud security are misaligned, 2) existing security tools ...

Regulating web use for employees via compliance handbook and URL filters for blacklisted (bad) and whitelisted (good) online resources has failed to improve compliance. Authenic8’s John Klassen discusses how firms can ensure compliance without sacrificing productivity or risking an internal backlash. Pressure from the SEC and state authorities has increased ...

2018 demonstrated that cyber threats are far from being tackled. Coalfire’s Adam Shnider discusses how in 2019, we can expect compliance and governmental bodies to set the bar even higher to protect data. While it may appear that enterprise security teams and compliance frameworks have stepped up their game to ...