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Regulatory requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley, BASEL II and HIPAA were designed to improve governance and security within the enterprise, but at some companies they appear to be doing just the opposite.

Former WorldCom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bernard Ebbers was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison, imposing what could be a life sentence on the executive held accountable for WorldCom's historic collapse into bankruptcy in the wake of a US$11 billion accounting scandal.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The opening line from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities seems appropriate to describe the current situation in IT risk management.

IT providers will be forced to take greater responsibility for application breaches and poorly-designed software as local customers embrace an emerging trend which includes suing vendors.

Enterprise risk management focuses on maximizing shareholder value or ensuring business continuity by creating a single view of all risks(internal and external) and an executive-level strategy to deal with those risks.

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Reengineering sounded so good the first time around that my bosses decided to give it another try. Hold on to your hats.

We put questions to a host of CSOs and a leading recruiter to see how the shape of the security practice is changing.

From configuring the hardware to connecting all the stovepipes, security executives need to tune up both for light jabs and roundhouse rights. CSO talks defensive strategy with Bill Boni, CISO of Motorola, and Ira Winkler, chief security strategist for Hewlett-Packard.

It is not just pieces of paper but even seemingly robust corporate reputations that can be shredded when organisations go in for ill-considered destruction of electronic documents.

Security can play a major role in ensuring the integrity of the corporation. But it won't happen without persistence. BY ANONYMOUS