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• Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

• Is your Cloud provider exposing remnants of your data?

  By Thor Olavsrud | 10 May, 2012 23:31

  If your organization uses a multi-tenant managed hosting service or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud for some or all of your data—and you aren't following best practices by encrypting that data—you may be inadvertently exposing it.

• Nissan, Under Armor report breaches of employee information

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 24 April, 2012 06:37

  Nissan Motor Co. and performance apparel maker Under Armor have disclosed recent data breaches involving the potential compromise of employee information.

• Who's Got Your Mail?

  By Mathias Thurman | 24 April, 2012 00:03

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• Workers did not exceed authorization when data stolen, says appeals court

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 April, 2012 09:29

  In a somewhat startling decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week ruled that several employees at an executive recruitment firm did not exceed their authorized access to their company's database when they logged into the system and stole confidential data from it.

• Univ. of Tampa says student info was exposed for 8 months

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 March, 2012 05:45

  An in-class project on advanced search techniques led to the discovery of a major data breach at the University of Tampa (UT) in Florida earlier this month.

• Apple patches record number of Safari 5 bugs with monster update

  By Gregg Keizer | 13 March, 2012 21:48

  Apple yesterday updated Safari to version 5.1.4, patching 83 vulnerabilities and boosting JavaScript performance on OS X Lion.

• Plugging a SaaS Access Hole

  By Mathias Thurman | 12 March, 2012 21:07

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• CITE Conference to tackle BYOD issues

  By Lucas Mearian | 05 March, 2012 22:11

  As more and more employees show up at work with their own smartphones, tablets or mobile devices -- and ask for access to corporate data, applications and networks -- IT managers are faced with a big challenge: how to support consumer technology at work while maintaining control of sensitive corporate data.

• Making sense of mobile device, app, and information management

  By Galen Gruman | 01 March, 2012 01:46

  Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful -- and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information, but the variety of platforms, the fact many are employee-owned, and uneven security capabilities all add up to a real -- sometimes impossible -- challenge to manage them in the same way as the corporate PC.

• In the Cloud, a data breach is only as bad as your contract

  By Thomas J. Trappler | 17 February, 2012 03:16

  Loss of control is one of the main things that gives people pause when they think about putting their data in the cloud. We've all seen how painful a data breach can be, and it can seem almost like asking for trouble to put your data in the hands of someone else. It's hard enough to prepare for a breach when you're in control. How do you do it when you put someone else in charge?

• Mobile data: Are you carrying a suitcase or a safe?

  By Kathy Kriese, principal product manager, Encryption Group, Symantec | 24 January, 2012 07:40

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• The Oracle flaw: Clarifications and more information

  By Paul Venezia and Eric Knorr | 24 January, 2012 04:32

  Since InfoWorld published "Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed" on Jan. 17, we've received abundant feedback from Oracle users and consulted with Oracle representatives, who went through the story point by point, offering clarifications and additional details, including information about the patches that address the flaw.

• Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed

  By Paul Venezia | 18 January, 2012 09:24

  Over the past two months, InfoWorld has been researching a flaw in Oracle's flagship database software that could have serious repercussions for Oracle database customers, potentially compromising the security and stability of Oracle database systems.

• Symantec confirms source code leak in two enterprise security products

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 January, 2012 23:04

  Symantec late Thursday confirmed that source code used in two of its older enterprise security products was publicly exposed by hackers this week.