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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Boxing South Africa officials recently alleged that the organisation’s former CEO, Bongani Khumalo, “wiped valuable information from their computers.” This is by no means a new phenomenon or an isolated incident. Every day companies are at risk of serious data breaches from various sources, including staff members that are retrenched, fired or somehow disgruntled with the organisation. In fact, the latest research conducted by IT security firm, Cyber-Ark Software Inc, indicates that: • 58% of Wall Street workers say they have already taken company data. • 71% said they will take data if faced with the prospect of retrenchment. The same can be said for South Africa where companies have been, and still are, forced to retrench staff on all levels in order to  ..

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