Ponemon News & Articles

Heading into the holiday season and things are slowing down. But there are still some gems like SpringCM’s problems with Salesforce, Xerox’s progress in the MFP space, the iPad version of Microsoft’s OneNote productivity app, HP research that finds enterprises are not protecting documents and Mike Doane on effective taxonomies for documents in SharePoint 2010.

In the GRC this week, Symantec and the Ponemon Institute have put a figure on how much data breaches are costing companies and offer an online tool for calculating your risk, OpenLogic is worried about software compliance in Android and iPhone/iPad releases, Kroll opens a document review center, while McAfee opens a data storage center with added security in the UK.

This week Zoho and Sage launch new online packages for the SMB market, Microsoft’s online CRM release is priced to suit SMBs, while US SMB’s are not backing up their data. In other new, tablet sales -- particularly iPad -- are booming.

By 2011, American hospitals, medical professionals and healthcare facilities will start enjoying government incentives for improved electronic healthcare records (EHR). At this point however, the industry is in dire need to plug security leaks in how it handles patient data. According to estimates, the healthcare industry in the United States is vulnerable to US$ 6 billion annually from data breaches in various forms.

If you were always worried about the plug-ins you use and the security threat they might pose, Google seems to agree and has just announced that it is going to limit certain plug-ins with its Chrome browser. Social Media also poses a security threat according to the Ponemon Institute.