• Feds to unveil insider threat defense plan by year end

  By Kenneth Corbin | 05 April, 2012 07:53

  In the aftermath of the embarrassing leak of hundreds of thousands of sensitive government and military documents to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, the Obama administration formed an interagency task force to refine the government's defenses against insider threats.

• Google seeks to reassure business users after attacks

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 13 January, 2010 11:41

  Google moved quickly on Tuesday to reassure its enterprise customers that their data is in safe hands, following its disclosure that it was targeted in December by a "highly sophisticated" cyberattack from China.

• Google blames 'human error' for data leak

  By Jeremy Kirk | 13 January, 2010 01:12

  Google is apologizing after it mistakenly e-mailed potentially sensitive business data last week to other users of its business listings service.

• HSBC exposed sensitive bankruptcy data

  By Robert McMillan | 07 December, 2009 06:01

  HSBC Bank says a bug in its imaging software inadvertently exposed sensitive data about some of its customers going through bankruptcy proceedings.

• Sept. 11 pager messages published online

  By Robert McMillan | 26 November, 2009 07:10

  The pager message is from a woman near a pay phone near 38th Street in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The woman says her children were evacuated, but she's trying to find them. She tells her husband she loves him.

• The Apple Leak: A Marketer's Magic Bullet

  By Tom Kaneshige | 11 January, 2010 05:57

  This week the Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD got the biggest Apple scoop of the year-granted, the year just started.

• A Practical Approach to Protecting Trade Secrets

  By Russell Beck and Matt Karlyn | 12 November, 2009 05:22

  Trade secrets are increasingly becoming a company's most valuable assets, and not surprisingly, threats to those assets have increased concomitantly. The greatest threat to company data is, of course, not outsiders but a company's own employees A company's ability to protect against rogue employees (as well as against unintentional harm) is governed by both federal and state laws, which vary by jurisdiction and, worse, are in a state of flux in many of those jurisdictions.

Whitepapers about data leaks

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  Eliminating Tape

  When it comes to storage and backup, the old tape may not ‘cut the mustard’ in today’s world. But how does one move on from tape? This Computerworld Australia Guide, sponsored by EMC, examines whether the Cloud will provide a viable long-term archiving option to magnetic tape. This guide also looks at eliminating tape by examining storage and backup alternatives, taking examples of organisations that have managed to overcome problems with tape. Read more.

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  OVUM Report: Governance Risk and Compliance-- GRC usage and buying trends in the ANZ markets

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  Delivering Tomorrow's Backup and Recovery Infrastructure

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance