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IBM announces plans to acquire OpenPages . . .
Top GRC vendors chart very different courses
Rarely does vendor consolidation reflect such fragmentation of a market. Picking up on the recent acquisition trend of independent market leaders, IBM today announced plans to acquire long-time GRC heavyweight OpenPages to strengthen its business analytics offerings, including Cognos and...
September 20, 2010 12:54 PM Read Full Post
Q&A with Credit Suisse's Daniel Barriuso
Getting a grip on security and risk
I had the chance to sit down with Credit Suisse’s CISO and Head of IT Risk, Daniel Barriuso, to ask him a few questions about his role at Credit Suisse and his approach to security. Daniel will be keynoting this...
September 16, 2010 12:03 PM Read Full Post
HP buys ArcSight: Caviar not catfish
Premium prices are being paid for quality companies
HP is buying ArcSight for $1.5 billion (£970 million), at a 70% market value premium compared to its value a month ago. My colleague John Kindervag will probably be blogging on this acquisition in more detail, so I won't...
September 14, 2010 9:52 AM Read Full Post
Intel-McAfee: Horseless carriage vendor buys buggy-whips
Trying to make sense of the deal
Intel has announced plans to buy security vendor McAfee for $7.7 billion, valuing the company at a 60% premium over their market cap as of closing-time yesterday. The valuation is about 5 times the last trailing four quarters’ revenues, which...
August 20, 2010 10:48 AM Read Full Post
Preview of PCI DSS 1.3 - oops 2.0
Don't panic, it's a yawner
The PCI Security Standards Council released the summary of changes for the new version of PCI -- 2.0. Merchants, you can quit holding your breath as this document is a yawner -- as we've long suspected it would be. In...
August 17, 2010 1:51 PM Read Full Post
Security in the cyber world
by Usman Sindhu
I had the pleasure of attending Open Group Conference Boston just two weeks ago. Historically, this conference aims at bringing enterprise architects together from various industries to talk about important architectural issues.This time around, they dedicated track sessions to the...
August 12, 2010 11:53 AM Read Full Post
Assuming your company is owned... that’s risk management
ComputerWorld columnist Roger Grimes recently blogged about “Security Rule No. 1: Assume You’re Hacked.” Roger, in turn, was reacting to a Forbes magazine written by Richard Stiennon that made the same point. Both posts describe steps IT security and...
July 22, 2010 9:12 AM Read Full Post
The Supreme Court Ruling will have little impact On SOX . . . sorry
Despite some speculation that that the Supreme Court ruling might overturn large portions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (if not all of it), the final opinion will likely have no significant impact on financial controls, auditing, or reporting requirements. The...
June 29, 2010 10:10 AM Read Full Post
Twitter settles with US authorities over privacy breach
Organisations continue to face risk for security breaches. Normally, we talk about the risk of security breaches being fines and other costs around loss of PII, per California Senate Bill 1386 and similar laws in 45-or-so other states. What’s...
June 25, 2010 9:56 AM Read Full Post
Crisis communication, business continuity, and risk management
I recently recorded a podcast with Stephanie Balaouras, discussing the potential for increased collaboration between crisis communication, business continuity, and risk management functions. The strategies that businesses implement to manage disasters can mean the difference between bankruptcy and resilience... and...
June 8, 2010 10:56 AM Read Full Post
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