To many companies, GRC (governance, risk and compliance) is a giant ape scaling the office walls. As technology becomes more pervasive and critical to business success, the hairy creature that is GRC also gains in its complexity. Legislation surrounding various aspects of corporate governance, especially the management of business critical and personal data, further adds to the risk mix that companies are exposed to. Judge Mervyn King identified this exposure and has, since 1994, led the way in establishing an (internationally recognized) benchmark by which boards of directors could measure their compliance in all aspects of business. The King III Report is his latest offering, with a greater focus on IT governance – separating the “information” and &ld ..

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Data on desktops and laptops is still a vastly exposed risk area, according to a recent Cibecs / IT Web survey. Most companies have server backup solutions in place, but focus is now shifting to user data stored on desktops and notebooks and the protection thereof. This is where a backup and recovery vacuum exists. The 2010 Data Loss Survey statistics underline this problem. For example: Nearly half (46%) of companies rely on some kind of backup policy (be it to a file server or external hard drive) to ensure business critical data is backed up. However these very same companies list the fact that users do not follow policy as their main obstacle in terms of successful data protection. Reality is that users will never follow data backup policies be ..

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Migrating data from old to new hardware, or changing over to a new software operating system while trying to make sure that all the correct data, from all the company’s users, make that journey successfully, is a bit of a nightmare. Historically, data migration projects have a tendency to fail, as a Bloor Research white paper suggests: Approximately 60 percent of data migration projects have overruns on time and / or budget, which affect business continuity and disrupt operations. . . Some projects fail completely.” Three aspects need careful consideration. Data migration projects differ from the usual as they are not implemented and then maintained. They are once off (hopefully) with the project drawing to a close when the new system is live. Data migration p ..

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