Posts Tagged ‘information risk’

Ignorance: The Real Information Risk

Monday, March 28th, 2011

As your business becomes more dependent on its information systems—and as the sheer volume of information moving through those systems continues to grow—it is natural for you to become increasingly concerned with information risk. After all, the effective mitigation of risk is one of the main factors in the long-term success of any business.

Information risk, however, comes in many forms. There’s the risk of your customers’ confidential data being compromised by cyber-criminals. There’s the risk of your company’s high-value intellectual property getting leaked to competitors. There’s the risk of inaccurate financial data compromising the integrity of your corporate accounting.

All of these risks are meaningful. That’s why it’s important for you to implement the proven best practices and technologies necessary to effectively mitigate them.

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Data Governance Through Effective Discovery of Unacceptable Use

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Every company defines and enforces policies concerning the acceptable use of information and information systems.  Failure to do so can leave a company vulnerable to the financial, legal and reputational risks associated with such unacceptable uses as copyright infringement, sexual harassment, spam and malicious hacking.

Policing such policies, however, is not easy.  Your systems and network administrators have plenty of work to do besides keeping tabs on how your employees are using your company’s computing infrastructure.  They don’t have a whole lot of time to devote to keeping pornography, illegally obtained downloads and other contraband off of your file servers and out of your email system.

Vivisimo’s Information Optimization (IO) solutions, however, are really useful for such policy enforcement efforts.

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Economist Reports on the New Phenomenon: Big Data

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

The Economist issued a special report last week entitled “Data, Data Everywhere.” In this report, Kenneth Cukier, a financial and business correspondent in Japan,   was interviewed to share his thoughts around how the superabundant growth of information is having a macro-economic effect not only on businesses but even society as a whole.  Some have labeled this the age of “Big Data.”

Kenneth explains the Big Data movement through a business example.  He reports that “Wal-Mart handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes.”  The CIO of Wal-Mart, Rollin Ford, wakes up everyday asking himself “how can I flow data better, manage data better, analyze data better?”  Wal-Mart is not alone in asking how they can prepare for the age of Big Data.

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