Grc News & Articles

This week in GRC, the issue of security features prominently with security issues around Android identified by Symantec, McAfee opens a new data center in the UK as part of its ongoing drive to provide content backup and security, Clearwell adds a legal hold module and ProofPoint releases a cloud-based email security and compliance package.

This week’s news is dominated by the announcement that the Intel deal to buy McAfee has finally closed, while Google has also bought into security with the acquisition of Zynamics. We look at the governance part of GRC, while Reuters and Bluestar have announced new releases.

In a report (Risk Management Survivors Offer Cautionary Tales) by a professor who attended the World Economic Forum in Davos there is some excellent information on a variety of risk and governance issues. What caught my eye was the section under the heading -- “Redesigning the Board.”

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.

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.

 Last January, EMC (news, site) bought GRC vendor Archer. This January, EMC outlined how it viewed GRC in the coming years and how Archer would fit into that. The result is the RSA Archer eGRC Management Platform, which provides a basis of EMC’s newly formulated GRC strategy.

I ask this question after reading Ernst & Young’s 2010 Global Information Security Survey. The survey has some interesting comments on the top IT security risks from new information technology -- including the obvious ones around data leakage, mobile devices, cloud computing and social media. E&Y report good news, while risks are perceived as increasing, nearly half see their IT security budget increasing as well.

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.

This week, once again, security is a top priority. AT&T teams up with McAfee to offer more security for mobile data access, SAP buys single log-in technology, OpenText and SharePoint get DoD 5015.02 certification, while Digital Reef and Exeterro team up for legal hold and information management.

Cloud computing is rapidly changing the way enterprises go about their business. Over the past 18 months we have noted a trend amongst enterprises to take their e-Discovery in-house. According to email and archiving security vendor Proofpoint, the economy available through the cloud is going to speed up the process and by the end of this year in-house e-Discovery could well be the norm.

This week in GRC news, Trend Micro offers Android data protection, Proofpoint research indicates that e-Discovery is moving to the cloud -- with a new release from Applied Discovery offering hosted e-Discovery that backs that research up -- and Laserfiche releases v8.2 focusing on GRC.

Laserfiche (news, site) kicked off its annual Empower Conference this week with several announcements, including the release of Laserfiche 8.2. The newest iteration of the company's document management tool pays special attention to governance, risk and compliance. 

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.