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Recent Business Security Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET
Recent Business Security Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET

Live Webcast: Essential Archive Requirements for E-Discovery
Corporate lawsuits are inevitable. When companies are sued, electronic data, and especially email is the first target of legal discovery. With increases in lawsuit frequency and the volume of electronic data, e-Discovery search is becoming a critical capability and potential liability for most organizations. The savings from one major lawsuit can fund an email archiving initiative and provide a competitive legal advantage. With the average billion-dollar company facing more than 50 new lawsuits each year, companies are seeking the cost benefits of centralized email archives and are rapidly adopting them. Join Dell MessageOne™ and TechRepublic for this live Webcast to explore the best practice approaches to quickly and effectively respond to a litigation event and how to realize associated time and cost efficiencies from building out repeatable technical processes: Implement granular retention policies that provide for varied retention periods and complicated retention requirements across an organization. Apply one button legal holds to any part of an organization. Centralize and reduce storage costs typically associated with archiving through implementing a "Store Once, Use Everywhere" technology. Facilitate legal discovery workflow with capabilities to search and retrieve millions of email messages in seconds. Register today
Three Ways ERP Can Help Manage Risk And Prevent Fraud
Business is all about taking risks. But intelligent managers know how to manage risks, thus preventing accidental losses as well as other operational, financial, and strategic risks - including fraud. To manage business risks by using technology, we must first understand and prioritize the risks a specific business faces, and then understand how Information Technology (IT) can help that business. Then we can come to understand how those risks intersect with the IT systems a business might already have in place. Indeed, intelligent use of an ERP system can not only help ensure compliance with legal requirements and accounting rules, but it can also help prevent fraud. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application and its user permissions settings can prevent theft.
Enterprise Resource Planning For Services: Has Software As A Service Become S...
In a market where labels define software vendors, the power of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) acronym has permeated the Small To Medium Business (SMB) market. Tier one and best-of-breed vendors are embracing the ERP label as the message of choice to its clients, especially in the services sector where ERP is less mature. As organizations seek enterprise solutions to meet their business requirements, they are faced with the challenge of deciphering which solutions best suit their needs.
Your Special Skills In Managing Risk: Recognizing Conflict, Reaching Consensus
On both the upside and the downside, strategic risk management for a nonprofit requires many skills, much knowledge, and vast experience. For some of these, in some technical areas, you may well need to look outside, beyond yourself and your immediate colleagues. But in looking, do not ignore the most recent group photo of your staff. Most of all, do not hesitate to look in the full-length mirror on the back of your office door. The abundant expertise regarding your nonprofit that you uniquely already possess, together with your very personal commitment to its mission, almost certainly make you, right now, one of the best strategic risk managers your nonprofit could possibly have.
Practice Safe Surfing And Defensive E-Mail
No matter how many firewalls, virus protection software programs and anti-spam devices are protecting your computers the enemy can invade. Face it; the spammers are just more driven by profit, and the virus creators wily and one step ahead of those who provide software to protect the portals. "Legitimate" spammers simply make money from any sales their emails produce; "Phishers" pushing spam requesting personal information are looking to steal your identity; virus creators are simply out to enjoy the damage their wares create. Now is a perfect time to ask your staff to resolve to surf safely on the Internet and not to open e-mails from any source, suspicious or known, with odd subject lines.
Assessing and Improving Your Organization: Symptoms, Diagnosis And Cures
Almost all of us belonged to some sick organization or another and at times all of us feel frustrated with them. Unfortunately, many of us are untrained in diagnosing what is going wrong in an organization. All we know is that it isn't working well. That sick feeling is from the Stewed Tomato Surprise you had last night, or that disastrous meeting this morning. To properly diagnose what is happening in an organization, we start like a doctor - with symptoms. Once we can describe what is going wrong, we look for causes, and recommend a prescription for what ails us.
Cardholder's Report Of Stolen Credit Card
This is a template which can be used as a legal form or letter by credit card holder for the reporting the loss or theft of the credit card. The template can be used by individuals or organizations to report for credit card/s stolen.
Proactive Risk Management: Making The Shift From Reporting To Early-Warning S...
Traditional reports give a summary of what has already happened, which is valuable for capturing detail and for historical purposes. But this means managers are always behind and trying to catch up. This paper examines current approaches to risk reporting, the answers that risk managers and claims administrators need on a daily basis, and the steps to transition toward proactive Management Through Metrics with an early-warning system.
Climate Changes Everything - The Dawn Of The Green Economy
Rarely has a single issue - climate change - so dominated the political debate and the public imagination. Will 2008 be the year of climate fatigue, or has the specter of climate change become so deeply rooted that it will lead to the transformation of consumer habits and the establishment of a truly green economy? Joseph A. Stanislaw, independent senior advisor to the Energy & Resources practice of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, discusses these issues in his latest white paper.
Getting ahead of security issues, compliance regulations and IT processes
It can be difficult to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your critical data with customers demanding 24/7 secure access to their data and regulators applying pressure on your business. In this Risk, Compliance and Security e-Kit for Financial Institutions, you'll learn about IBM security solutions that proactively protect against worms, viruses and other threats. There is a Tower Group white paper on the need for stronger consumer banking authentication, a study about innovative solutions for identifying, measuring, and optimizing operational risks and an ISS case study about staying on top of new vulnerabilities. Plus, six other reports on preventive solutions to security.
Risk Management Plan
This is a template for risk management plan.
Trust and Competitive Advantage: An Integrated Approach to Governance, Risk M...
Burned by Enronesque accounting scandals, investors and governments are imposing rigorous reporting requirements to keep companies on the straight and narrow. These reactions are a symptom of a fundamental force in the economy: a crisis of trust among stakeholders of corporations. Stakeholders are not only a company's shareholders, but also customers, employees, business partners and communities, and in recent years their trust has been profoundly shaken. Naturally, they are now trying to protect themselves, often via legislation.
Thinking Through Uncertainty: CFOs Scrutinize Non-Financial Risk
All risk is ultimately financial. Risks can impact the top and bottom line and eventually every risk is expressed in the company's share price. CFOs are increasingly getting involved in the art - and the science - of non-financial risk management. The companies profiled in this paper see risk management not just as a grim exercise in disaster avoidance but a chance to build and extend their business, build corporate cohesiveness, and solidify human resources. To learn more about how these senior business executive are achieving not just better risk control, but better performance generally, download this report.
The Global CFO Study 2008
Most companies that experienced a negative event don't have a program for controlling risk. Why not? Find out in The Global CFO Study 2008 from IBM. This study, conducted in cooperation with Wharton Business School and the Economist Intelligence Unit, explores how CFOs can help balance risk and performance in a rapidly changing business climate. IBM interviewed over 1,200 CFOs in 79 countries. See how their approach to handling risk compares with yours.
Service Providers and SAS 70 Reports Understanding Requirements, Compliance a...
This webinar gives a complete overview of the SAS 70 report and explains what a SAS 70 Report is and who can issue it, which types of entities are candidates for SAS 70 audits and what is the difference between a SAS 70 Type and Type II Report. The webinar also outlines how Sarbanes-Oxley has impacted the demand for SAS 70 audits and how a SAS 70 Audit process works and frequency of reporting. Lastly, it introduces participants to the format documenting controls: COSO and COBIT and the benefits to be derived from SAS 70 audits.

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