Why risk management fails in IT

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	Why risk management fails in IT It is frustrating to see the amount of budget allocated to compliance when you consider that most of the money goes to documenting security controls, not improving defenses. One of the biggest reasons is that risk management, a carry-over from the bigger world of business, does not work in IT security. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: RIM Introducing BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments with BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion. From a single interface, manage BlackBerry® smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use the iOS® and Android™ operating systems. Put an end to mobile chaos. Learn more at blackberry.com/mobilefusion In this Issue Tech Industry Leaders and Their Political Donations Microsoft's Surface tablet with Windows RT matches iPad on pricing The iPad Mini invites are here! INSIDER Free technology for the taking Cisco adds to cloud collaboration services its hosting partners can offer Raspberry Pi now packs 512MB RAM Antivirus evaluation puts Kaspersky and Symantec on top Amazon EC2 founders' latest company joins OpenStack Why Apple should price the iPad Mini at $199 DNC launches website to explain Mitt Romney's tax plan...kind of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Encrypting The VA What will an $8 billion check from Softbank buy Sprint? Box Adds HTML5 Framework, Embeds Cloud Content Management in 3rd-Party Apps The 9 most endangered IT career paths RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Tech Industry Leaders and Their Political Donations Money, politics and tech CEOs. Here's a look at who is giving what to whom and who's not giving anything at all. Read More Microsoft's Surface tablet with Windows RT matches iPad on pricing Microsoft on Tuesday set the price of its Windows RT Surface tablet with 32GB of storage at US$499, setting up the stage for a battle with Apple's iPad, which has a similar starting price. Read More The iPad Mini invites are here! Apple on Tuesday extended invites teasing recipients that on Oct. 23 in San Jose "We've got a little more to show you," presumably the iPad mini with a 7.85-inch screen. Read More INSIDER Free technology for the taking It's like the store doors just opened on Black Friday and you have your pick of free stuff. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps Enabling Data Center and Cloud Service Management Read this white paper to learn how the combination of discovery, data aggregation, correlation, out-of-the-box analytics, data management, and reporting can yield a single pane of glass into data center and IT operations and services. Learn more. Cisco adds to cloud collaboration services its hosting partners can offer Cisco on Tuesday announced that it is increasing the number of collaboration software products that its hosting partners can offer via the cloud, hoping to make the bundles more attractive to the partners and their customers. Read More Raspberry Pi now packs 512MB RAM The Raspberry Pi model B -- a cheap, customizable Linux computer the size of a pack of cigarettes -- now boasts 512MB of RAM, for the same price as before, according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Read More Antivirus evaluation puts Kaspersky and Symantec on top Dennis Technology Labs released the results of its latest round of antivirus tests seeking to determine the effectiveness of several commercial anti-malware products, with Kaspersky and Symantec coming out on top. Read More Amazon EC2 founders' latest company joins OpenStack A company founded by two pioneers of Amazon Web Service's popular Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is joining OpenStack because it wants to integrate open source code into its cloud management platform product. Read More WHITE PAPER: Good Technology Fuel Mobile Collaboration. Secure Data & Privacy. Read this whitepaper to learn how to enable mobile collaboration while maintaining data security and strict end user privacy whether on BYOD or a mix of corporate and employee owned devices. Read Now! Why Apple should price the iPad Mini at $199 As the rumored unveiling date for the iPad Mini steadily approaches - October 23 to be exact - speculation and rumors over Apple's pricing plan for the product continue to pile up. Most recently, leaked screenshots from the inventory of a German electronics company purport to show the entry level iPad Mini checking in with 8GB of storage and a price tag of $249 Euros, or about $323. Read More DNC launches website to explain Mitt Romney's tax plan...kind of In the latest example of creative use of web design for satire, the Democratic National Convention has launched a website misleadingly labeled RomneyTaxPlan.com. Just above a bright red button that reads "GET THE DETAILS," a message tells visitors that clicking the button will give them the background on the Republican presidential candidate's plan to accomplish the tax goals set out in his campaign. The... Read More A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Encrypting The VA Back in 2006 the Department of Veterans Affairs had one of the "mothers of all data breaches". A laptop was stolen that contained 26.5 million records of confidential and/or personally identifiable information (PII). Among the data stolen were the records of over 1 million military members. Of course this kind of incident attracts headlines like moths to the flame. With all of the bad publicity... Read More What will an $8 billion check from Softbank buy Sprint? If US$8 billion shows up in Sprint Nextel's wallet as planned in Softbank's proposed takeover, the No. 3 U.S. mobile operator may pay off debt, speed up its rollout of LTE, or even buy its network partner, Clearwire. Read More Box Adds HTML5 Framework, Embeds Cloud Content Management in 3rd-Party Apps Box Embed is designed to allow developers to embed Box's content management and collaboration features into business applications, providing unified content governance without the need for expensive integration efforts or a unified software stack. Read More The 9 most endangered IT career paths The IT job landscape is evolving quickly. Here's how to avoid IT extinction Read More
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