The latest two laptop data loss incidents in the educational sector – details of which were revealed by the Information Commissioner's Office on October 5 – are slightly different from the usual data loss censures by the regulator, says SecurEnvoy.
Responding to an Information Week feature on the trials and tribulations of a fictitious chief information officer, data governance specialist Varonis Systems says that least privilege automation is clearly the way forward and the controls on handling that data are an essential part of the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) jigsaw, specifying who can do what, where and when with an organisation’s information.
Since COBIT was first issued 15 years ago, enterprises worldwide have been using it to assess and improve their IT processes. However, until now there has not been a consistent and reliable assessment approach. ISACA’s new COBIT Assessment Programme, which includes the new Process Assessment Model (PAM), provides this consistency and reliability so business and IT leaders can have confidence in the assessment process and the quality of the results as they maximize the business value of their IT investments. COBIT PAM can be downloaded at www.isaca.org/cobit-assessment-program.
At a recent Cloud Security event, the president of the UK & Ireland chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA UK & Ireland) said that the perception of security as a concept is out-dated in the second decade of the 21st century.
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