Compliance News & Articles

This week has seen a considerable amount of cloud action among vendors including Modulo, which has taken its risk manager into the cloud; Iron Mountain, which offers medical records access in the cloud; and Compliance 360 has added flexible reporting to its platform. Autonomy, meanwhile, offers e-Discovery across social media.

This week was always going to be about the San Francisco RSA conference. This year, the big theme has been cloud security and how security, cloud computing and deployments are intrinsically linked. RSA’s Chairman Art Coveillo had some interesting things to say, as well as news of integrations between McAfee and RSA. But there are others there, too, such as Symantec, Modulo and Qualys.

Ever wonder what your data does “out there?” Ever wish you could see beyond the present world and into the virtual space? This week, Net Optics, a company known for its intelligent access and monitoring architecture, has released a product designed to help organizations monitor both physical and virtual network traffic.

The announcements over the past week of two security solutions from CipherCloud and Vormetric are the latest releases that aim to convince enterprises that their data will be safe in the cloud, both public and private.

Last fall, Queplix brought a layer of virtualization to your data. With its Virtual Data Manager, users can see their data across various systems, giving access to the bigger picture. But what happens when one of those systems gets out-of-date or, even worse, becomes a relic of data management? What happens to all the data that lived there?

In GRC this week there have been a number of releases in the e-Discovery space, including a StoredIQ solution for SharePoint  and enhanced search across Clearwell's e-Discovery platform. There are also indications that we may be heading toward an e-Discovery standard. Meanwhile, both Viewpointe and Agiliance have issued new releases.

This week in the GRC space, there were significant releases from both EMC and IBM’s new acquisition OpenPages. Compliance vendor Compliance 360 looks ahead in 2011 to how the directors of major corporations will react to GRC over the year, and open source OpenLogic reports record sales driven by its new open source compliance offering.

This week HP has launched a suite of new products that aims to offer enterprises developing hybrid clouds GRC across applications and infrastructure, Guidance extends e-Discovery software to iPad, Digital Reef and Relativity team-up for e-Discovery, and Protiviti adds Arabic to its governance portal.

Early January and the GRC space is already moving. Dell has just expanded its IT portfolio by buying security provider Secureworks, OpenLogic offers agile development governance, LiveOffice looks at cloud security for email and there are software upgrades from Unisys and Bridgeway.

When we look back at GRC, there are some stories that stand out more than others. In 2010, the enterprise embraced social media and with that came questions and challenges about how to effectively manage it. In addition, the rise of cloud computing posed storage problems for companies’ unstructured data. Let’s take a look at the year’s top stories.

Google brought the fire this year with weighty moves aimed at expanding its kingdom into the social media and enterprise realm. Consequently, the Internet giant also took a lot of heat for exposing too much data and kicking out products that nobody really liked. You win some, you lose some, right? Here's a look back at the highlights. 

This week in the GRC space, we look at e-Discovery in BPOS (and Office365), LiveOffice archives Salesforce Chatter, OpenLogic offers open source governance for agile developers and new research reveals how safe our smartphones really are. 

This year has been one of both progress and frustration when it comes to GRC. While there is a lot to cheer about, and hope for 2011, irritants and obstacles continue.

The Asia Pacific region is keen on cloud computing, as we earlier reported. This is one of the premises by which the Asia Cloud Computing Association (news, site) was built on. The consortium stands to face difficulties in certain markets, though, and will need to muscle up in order to attain its goal of promoting the adoption of cloud computing initiatives in the region.

It has been an interesting week in GRC. The Linux Box as released the community edition of its email archiving as a prequel to the enterprise edition release early next year, Invincea says there may be problems with the new Adobe Reader X , while data back-up is creating cloud migration issues.