• Medical firm avoids Exchange nightmare with outside help

  By Tim Greene | 22 May, 2012 05:31

  International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the project's cost and the complexity of doing it alone was so daunting that the company called on outside help that costs it less in the long run.

• Fave Raves: Compliance assistance wins over IT pros

  By Ann Bednarz | 06 April, 2012 00:23

  IT pros play a vital role in helping their organizations enforce operational policies and abide by industry and government regulations. When we asked IT pros about their favorite products, a number of them cited technologies that help their companies achieve regulatory compliance.

• Developers say application security lacking

  By Brandon Butler | 21 March, 2012 02:47

  Are enterprise applications really secure? It depends on whom you ask.

• 5 signs that you've lost control over your Cloud apps

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 March, 2012 21:28

  CIOs are waking up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other departments.

• IETF explores new working group on identity management in the cloud

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 09 March, 2012 22:35

  Proponents of a common scheme for managing user identity in cloud-based applications will pitch their idea to the Internet's premier standards-setting body at a meeting in Paris later this month.

Whitepapers about regulatory compliance

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

  The existence of an established and stable governance risk and compliance strategy is extremely important to public and private sector organisations as they strive to meet an evergrowing range of regulatory demands. Given the current constraints, it is one of the few areas where the vast majority of organisations intend to either maintain or in many cases increase spending. Read more.