Most enterprises scan their inbound e-mail for unwanted content but too many still ignore outbound e-mails that could result in lost intellectual property as well as legal and compliance issues.
Google Desktop's new search-across-computers feature could put sensitive data at risk and violate US data-privacy regulations, say IT administrators at a public university and a large manufacturing company. Both are banning it from their networks.
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In early 2000, IBM research executives Carol Kovac and Jeff Augen were kicking around the notion of how the company could play a larger role in the fast-growing life sciences arena.
Microsoft's prescription for reducing medication errors moved a step closer to implementation when the software giant and its health-care partner, WellPoint Health Networks, chose two vendors to provide electronic-prescribing software to physicians.
IT is largely about solving problems and keeping the business running, and the higher up you are in the IT department the bigger the problems you have to solve.
Dr John Halamka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School, is an early adopter of RFID technology -- he's got a chip implanted in his arm. These tags can keep track of personal medical records, as well as hospital equipment. Halamka talks with ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber about recent advances in patient care, and electronic prescriptions.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about the flip side of the coin -- what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?
Veritas, which makes software used to protect data from risks such as computer crashes or storage system catastrophes, introduced updates for two of its primary product lines last week.
IT watcher Jon Oltsik says businesses are changing how they think about information security -- and none too soon.
The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.
The safest way to exchange instant messages (IMs) is to stay within the enterprise, but in most cases the IM cat is already out of the bag, and security staff are playing catch up.
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