Thales guide helps business to audit their cyber security risk

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London, UK – 1 March 2012 – A report released today by Thales, a global leader in information systems and communications security, highlights the four main areas of cyber security addressed by best practice organizations. The report also warns that businesses may be over-spending on cyber security solutions that over-protect non-sensitive data.

Aimed at helping businesses to audit and improve their cyber security, the report, ‘A practical guide to assessing your cyber security strategy’ provides organizations with a framework to assess their level of risk, identify gaps in their approach and tighten their cyber security measures.

Axceler Ships Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010

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WOBURN, MA– September 20, 2010 – Axceler,the leader in administration and migration software for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the immediate availability of DavinciMigrator for SharePoint 2010, the first new product to be introduced as a result of its acquisition of echoTechnology.  DavinciMigrator for SharePoint 2010 offers comprehensive, risk-based control when moving to the latest SharePoint platform.  Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 is available now from Axceler on Axceler.com.

DavinciMigrator reduces the risks, lowers the overall cost and shortens the time it takes to complete a SharePoint 2010 migration.  By helping administrators with the discovery and planning of their migrations, Davinci Migrator delivers a unique feature set to the SharePoint market by reducing the number of failed migration attempts and dramatically shortening project schedules.

“Davinci is powerful and revolutionary for three main reasons.  First, Davinci lets managers know whether the migration will succeed before the migration is done, saving precious time.  Second, Davinci provides the granular control that an enterprise needs to prioritize, plan, and execute a SharePoint migration.  And third, Davinci provides the deep SharePoint environmental analysis a migration requires to understand what’s involved ahead of time,” said Garry Smith, General Manager echoProducts.

CIO Insight: IT Security, Reconsidered

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An excellent article at CIO Insight in their "Expert Voices" column concerning IT security.  The article is titled, "IT Security, Reconsidered":
Business people know risk and return are opposite sides of the same coin; you can't have return without risk. So successful companies learn to analyze, accept and manage risk…most kinds of risk, anyway. When it comes to IT risk, organizations tend to focus on avoiding risk instead of managing it, by preventing intrusions and preparing to respond to catastrophic events. But instead of protecting companies, this approach to risk has blindsided IT to a long stream of IT disasters, from system meltdowns (Comair, Jet Blue) and stolen credit card data (TJX, CardSystems Solutions) to pilfered laptops (Veterans' Administration) and stolen data (U.S. Department of Transportation). Putting IT security back in the context of risk management has been the focus of George Westerman's work.
This year at work I have spent close to half my time dealing with a lot of IT security.  I have not only been kept busy with locking down the network but  also with way too much paperwork certifying that our machines are secure.  When you spend so much time making the paper pushers happy that you're following the latest policies it hard to actually really identify the true risks that don't show up on paper.  More importantly, spending so much time on IT security not only locks out the would-be hackers but also locks your IT staff out from adding potential IT value to the operations.  There has to be a balance somewhere...