Compliance News & Articles

This week there is OpenText’s announcement that Metastorm BPM has been given some very serious security certifcation, EMC buys Syncplicity and offers cloud governance, Iron Mountain outlines the problems created by SharePoint and Social Media in records management and BWise moves on from acquisition.

Some interesting announcements in the GRC space this week, among them the release of e-Discovery services onto AWS by X1 Discovery, Symantec releases its annual disaster preparedness report, Agilance upgrades its Federal offering with FedRAMP Content Pack and Logic Buys Quantum.

We’ve been saving up "Gartner’s Cool Vendor’s in Content Management" list for the past four days like a kid trying not to eat their favorite candy bar. Finally, we snapped, opened it last night and found that only four vendor’s had made this year’s list.

Quite a bit of movement this week in GRC, including the release of the upgrade to SAS’s GRC solution, the acquisition of BWise by NASDAQ OMX, Microsoft patches up another bunch of vulnerabilities, Clearwater expands its reseller program and Daegis offers free tools for calculating e-Discovery costs.

It seems like only yesterday that we were shouting about the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010. In fact, it is just about two years ago (May 12, 2010) that it was released. And with a mere two years on the market, we’re starting to shout about the release of the next edition -- SharePoint 15.

A final announcement from OpenText this week. Yesterday we had an extension of media management through a partnership with ConceptShare; today it’s the turn of its mobile offerings, which have been expanded with the release of Exceed onDemand for Apple iPad tablets.

This week, Facebook took further steps to secure its users by teaming up with McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Sophos to offer better protection, which is probably good in light of the new Symantec Internet Security Report. Also this week, TEAM and EntropySoft get together for compliance with Oracle email management, while CDS and Tactical get together to offer e-Discovery services.

This week is Oracle Collaborate 12 and, needless to say, there are a number of interesting news items form it, not least of which are general upgrades to JD Edwards, including its compliance offerings and reporting abilities. Q Software has also announced upgraded reporting for JD Edwards, while elsewhere Aruvio upgrades its GRC platform.

It has just about become an IT mantra at this point that some things go better in the cloud. The arguments around cost, scalability, ease of access and ease of use have all been made, and remade hundreds of times. Even the issue of security appears to be slowly getting resolved. But like any other IT deployment, if cloud deployments are not planned and implemented methodically, your enterprise could be looking at serious and expensive IT problems.

It’s been all of three weeks since OpenText released something new. We were getting worried. But today, we have news of two new releases: One is for global brand management and the other is an upgrade to OpenText Alchemy, its document management solution for small and medium-sized businesses.

This week, there were a couple of acquisitions including the closure of the deal by Symantec to buy Nukona, which provides mobile data security, and IBM’s announcement that it will buy Varicent, which should help with compliance. Kroll released its biannual survey on health data compliance, while LockPath upgrades Keylight.

Over the past years, many companies have joined forces with StoredIQ to build a successful business around the information management solution provider’s technologies and distribution channels. Recently, StoredIQ added NewsGator to their partner list. By doing so, NewsGator Social Sites 2010 customers will be able to manage their social data’s risks in an efficient and cost-effective way.

In the GRC space this week, the big news has to be that Google is offering cheap e-Discovery with its Google Apps. However, there are more nuggets in Lockpath’s survey of risk, while a number of GRC acquisitions this week are worth noting.

This week in the GRC space, new research from IDC shows security and regulatory concerns are holding back cloud adoption, at least in the utilities vertical; NextDocs upgrades its SharePoint compliance product; Avira tracks lost Androids and LockPath partners with Qualys.

Busy week with security and data insights taking pride of place. Symantec has two news offerings worth noting this week including the release of Data Insight 3.0 and the acquisition of Nukon, IBM offers analytics for fraud prevention, ControlPanelGRC upgrades and Vista Buys Equity.