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EU privacy laws

A couple of posts ago I wrote about an EU Directive, and how an attendee at our Antispyware Workshop told me it would severely affect adware. Either I misheard him or he got the designation wrong, but instead of it being Directive 8446, like I said earlier, my research has...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, EU Directive, adware

Blog posts 2005-05-10

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UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?

CRT's should be banned from saleThere is no reason for anyone to still be using a CRT today, save for some VERY high end photography and movie applications that the studios use.RE: UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?I think the idea of Zero waste is absolute bollocks - esp....

Tags: Monitors & displays, PRODUCTIVITY, CRT, WEEE Directive, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Bloor Research Case Study: SenSage at O2 Ireland

O2 is a part of Telefónica, which was originally established as Companiia Telefónica Nacional de Espana in 1924 as the Spanish subsidiary of AT&T. It needed to meet the requirements of the EU Data Retention Directive, to meet the demands of other compliance requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley SOX and the...

Tags: Compliance, O2 Plc., SenSage, Bloor Research, Event Data Warehouse, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Case studies 2009-04-01

On-Demand Webcast: Best Practices for Data Privacy & Protection

The attendee of this webcast will learn best practices for protecting Personally Identifiable Information PII and other sensitive data against new and emerging threats such as SQL injection and rogue insiders. Protecting against cyber attacks, breaches, fraud and insider threats has heightened the need for organizations to carefully review their...

Tags: Guardium, Data Protection, Personally Identifiable Information, On-demand, Privacy, Best Practice, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Security, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-01-01

Clinical Literature Reviews: Changes in the European Union's Medical Device Directive Require Manufacturers to Take Immediate Steps to Comply

With a rapidly approaching March 2010 deadline to comply with the European Union's revised Medical Device Directive, Nerac advises that manufacturers, now faced with an enormous amount of work to complete in a short period of time, take immediate steps to deal with the coming changes. At stake is maintaining...

Tags: Medical Device, European Union, Nerac, Healthcare, Sales Strategy, Sales

White papers 2008-12-12

MiFID Compliance With Tripwire

MiFID is a European Union Directive that, like its 1993 predecessor seeks to establish conditions under which investment firms and banks that engage in the investment business can provide such service or establish branches in other Member States, based on home country authorization and supervision. The EU created MiFID to...

Tags: Tripwire, MiFID, PDAs, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Handhelds, Hardware, Internet

White papers 2008-09-11

Basel II Compliance With Tripwire: Configuration Control for Virtual and Physical Infrastructures

As if financial institutions did not have enough compliance worries, a new international standard - Basel II - now looms on the compliance horizon. Unlike other laws and standards affecting financial institutions in the US and overseas such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA"), the EU Data Protection Directive and the...

Tags: Financial, Compliance, Tripwire, Basel II, Financial Services

White papers 2008-09-11

The Relationship Between ISO 27002 and the EU Data Protection Directive

The regulatory landscape for Information Security in Europe has grown ever more complex in recent years. As organisations, both public and private, recognise the inherent value of their information, and as the safety and reliability of electronic communications become ever more central to the ways in which it interacts with...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., ISO, Online Communications, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Regulations, Quality, Business Operations, Government

White papers 2008-09-01

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom

In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain.  The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...

Tags: Data Communications Bill, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Nathan McFeters, Phone, Software, Storage, Telecom & Utilities

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Auto Time Premium 6.0.5 (Windows)

Auto Time Premium is one of the UK's best selling attendance software packages and offers a comprehensive solution to all of your attendance and absence recording problems. Forward plan your employees absences and check for cover during critical periods, plan your shift rotas or have patterns automatically allocated according to...

Tags: Software, Absence, Microsoft Windows, Auto Time Solutions, Auto Time Premium, Lateness, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Tcp/Ip, Human Resources, Management, Networking

Software downloads 2008-06-02

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Matusow, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

The UK's triumph of good sense

The UK's triumph of good senseWrong historical figureYou mentioned Mozart's descendants, but seeing as how the subject is Great Britain the appropriate citation although a different art is to [url=http://yarchive.net/macaulay/copyright.html]Milton's granddaughter[/url].I agree even 50 years is a bit long.As the fights about Google's digitization project have revealed, beyond a certain...

Tags: Term Limits, Now IT, music, patent

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

HortiBot, a weed-removing robot

According to the Ludington Daily News, Michigan, Danish agricultural engineers have built a robot to help farmers with weeds. The Hortibot is about 3-foot-by-3-foot, is self-propelled, and uses global positioning system GPS. It can recognize 25 different kinds of weeds and eliminate them by using its weed-removing attachments. It's also...

Tags: Wireless &, Telecom, Science &, Nature, Robotics, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2007-07-04

EU hits Google for holding onto data for too long

EU hits Google for holding onto data for too longLegal requirement?Google has pointed out that there's an EU directive that requires the near-future passage of laws [i]requiring[/i] data retention of between 6 and 24 months. Why isn't there more information about this possible requirement, other than the mention I...

Tags: Blogging, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-26

MiFID

Compliance with MiFID the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive will mean major rework and enhancement of a variety of IT systems within many investment companies across the EU. The pressure is on to comply by the November 2007 deadline without adversely impacting existing functionality in applications as diverse as trading...

Tags: Performance, Compliance, Monitoring, AppLabs, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-05-07

ADACOM Has Been Listed as the First Certification Service Provider in Europe, With Products That Have Been Successfully Tested for Compliance With the On-Line Platform of the Czech Arbitration Court

The Alternative Dispute Resolution ADR for .eu domain name disputes is provided by the Prague-based Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic (the "Czech Arbitration Court"). The Czech Arbitration Court has amended its ADR Supplemental Rules to allow for...

Tags: Compliance, Domain Name, Czech Republic, ADACOM, Czech Arbitration Court, Domain Names, Security, Internet

Case studies 2007-05-01

Network Security Forensics

The world of network security has become an "Arms race". As organizations tighten their external defenses and install improved countermeasures, threats and attacks evolve to circumvent these security measures. Increasingly, this arms race is taking place in a regulated environment, where government rules such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and the...

Tags: Network, Networking, Network Security, Security

White papers 2007-05-01

The feds weigh in on Windows security

The feds weigh in on Windows securityWant security? Go with Apple...Since Mac OS X is built on FreeBSD UNIX which runs on more mainframes for financial institutions than any other variant of UNIX, the logical choice for a truly secure system would be Macintosh based systems. If it's good enough...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, UNIX, agency, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

Sun Managed Operations for Security: Keep Your Network Safe Even in Tough Times

IT security threats such as hacker attacks, data theft, or system breakdowns are in the news every day, causing enormous financial loss and damaging the reputations of companies. With the need to fulfill regulatory requirements such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, or the EU Data...

Tags: Network, Sun Microsystems Inc., Security

White papers 2007-01-01

EU data guru: Privacy advocates not a problem

EU data guru: Privacy advocates not a problemLegislation is only part of the solution...Mr Hustinx has a point: there's certainly little prospect of either anti-terrorism or personal privacy efforts succeeding if the law is silent on the question of data protection. However, legislation must go hand in hand with self-regulatory...

Tags: SECURITY, data guru, Privacy Advocates, ASAP

Discussion threads 2006-09-21