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- Five off-work activities that could get you fired
- Most of the states in the U.S. operate under an at-will employment policy -- unless you're a member of a federally protected class, you can be fired for any reason. It may surprise you what a company could fire you for. by Toni Bowers
- Tags: Employer, Larry Buhl, Recruitment & Selection, Policies And Procedures, Government, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Podcast: Take the pain out of IT compliance
- Complying with government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA has been a daunting task for IT departments, soaking up huge amounts of time and resources. During this 16-minute podcast, IT consultant Jeff Davis and I examine how IT departments are coping with...
- Tags: Information Technology, Compliance, Podcasts, Regulatory Compliance, Hipaa, Strategy, Internet, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Management, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for February 19
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Quite a tail to tell," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
- Tags: Quibble, Dr., Radiation, Policies And Procedures, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Human Resources, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Geek Trivia: Overdose of tragedy
- For those of you interested in the various scales that quantify major disasters, we have a new entry for you: The International Nuclear Events Scale. The INES is an eight-point (0 to 7) numeric scale developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency for communicating the level of danger represented by...
- Tags: Chernobyl, Radiation, Accident, INES, INES Level 7, INES Level 0 Event, Cecil Kelley, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Linksys inadvertently promotes phone sex hotline
- It appears that a misprint on the box of a Linksys router pointed the way to a phone sex hotline. Excerpt from Gizmodo: I hit Circuit City with my mom on Black Friday to pick up the greatest and cheapest router ever, the Linksys WRH54G, costing...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Phone, Accident, Linksys Inc., Home Networking, Policies And Procedures, Networking, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Intelligent Transport Systems offer safety for smart drivers
- About two months ago, my vehicle broke down and I had to buy a new one. I never was much of a car person, but something about buying a new vehicle makes you automatically feel like a car connoisseur. However, when your vehicle is kaput, you don't have a...
- Tags: Car, Toyota Motor Corp., GPS, Handhelds, Policies And Procedures, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Human Resources, Home Entertainment, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Tripwire introduces Tripwire Enterprise 7
- Tripwire, the company to watch out for in the fast-growing market segment called configuration auditing and control, will launch the latest release of its Tripwire Enterprise software come July 16. According to eWeek: Tripwire Enterprise 7 is aimed at helping IT get a better handle on...
- Tags: Tripwire, Virtualization, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Hardware, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-15
- IT can play a key role in getting new employees up to speed
- How involved is your IT department in the training of new employees? Is there a formal indoctrination process or does most knowledge transfer happen on an ad hoc basis?I have to disagree.There are numerous technical support people with whom I hav
- Tags: end users, jeff dray, training, career, information technology, JodyGilbert, nontechnical people, policies and procedures, custom application
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Understand the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance on your disaster recovery plan
- If you've recently added policies and software systems specifically for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, you will also need to revamp your disaster recovery planning. Make sure you know the SOX basics. No discussion of disaster recovery DR and compliance issues would be complete without looking at the Sarbanes-Oxley...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Mike Talon, Regulatory compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, Disaster Recovery Planning, SEC, Bottom Line, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Data Management
- Technical articles 2006-02-27
- HIPAA compliance and disaster recovery
- Find out what your disaster recovery plan must cover in order to comply with current HIPAA regulations. Disaster recovery DR planning often fails to take into consideration how various regulations and compliance issues will impact the firm after a disaster strikes. Though it doesn't impact all businesses,...
- Tags: Regulations, Mike Talon, Regulatory compliance, Backups, HIPAA, disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, Security, Compliance, Data, Regulation, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Data Management
- Technical articles 2006-02-13
- Sarbanes-Oxley robs Ballmer of a free Xbox 360
- Poor Steve Ballmer. At a meeting today he revealed that he does not yet have an Xbox 360. "Thanks to the wonders of Sarbanes-Oxley, management does not get a free Xbox 360," he said. As a result, he has to shop around for one like everybody else and hasn't had...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-12-07
- Effectively implement and manage Windows Server 2003 security policies
- Learn how to manage security aspects of a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network. This information will help you prepare for the Microsoft 70-299 certification exam.This sample chapter, taken from MCSA/MCSE 70-299 Exam Cram 2: Implementing and Administering Security in a Windows 2003 Network, will give you guidance and serve as...
- Tags: Administering Security, exam, Implementing, knowledge, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, network, policies and procedures, security, security issue, security policy, server, template, tool
- Download resources 2005-10-21
- Don't gamble with HIPAA security compliance
- Ramon Padilla thinks the HIPAA security compliance guidelines left too many loopholes for foot-dragging IT departments. Read his recommendations for becoming compliant and documenting your efforts. April 21, 2005 has come and gone pretty much without a peep. That date was the deadline for the Health Insurance ...
- Tags: Regulations, Ramon Padilla Jr., Regulatory compliance, HIPAA, security, specification, Government IT Newsletter, Compliance, Ramon Padilla, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- Technical articles 2005-06-27
- The SIEM Architecture
- Security Event Management SEM products collected log data from security devices in order to correlate disparate events and detect security incidents in real time. Today, many SEM vendors claim that these same products that help security administrators identify attacks can also meet the comprehensive reporting needs of regulatory compliance auditors....
- Tags: Compliance, Enterprise Strategy Group, Analysis, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2007-10-01
- IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
- To effectively compete in today's business environment, companies are increasing the number of users - customers, employees, partners and suppliers - allowed to access information across applications, mainframes, service oriented architectures, the Web and other environments. As a result, CIOs today continually face two major challenges: meeting internal and regulatory...
- Tags: IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, Regulatory Compliance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Roi/Tco, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2007-12-20
- Protecting against tomorrow's threats today -- proactive security from SophosLabs
- Constantly looking for new vulnerabilities to exploit, today's cybercriminals are using fast- changing, low-profile threats to surreptitiously infect and hijack computers across the business network. Spammed email, infected endpoint devices and, above all, the largely unprotected Web, are all part of the rapidly evolving threat landscape in...
- Tags: Security, Sophos Plc., Threat, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Regulatory Compliance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2008-02-21
- TechNet Webcast: Active Directory and Compliance Standards (Level 300)
- Compliance standards today call for protecting data, users, computers, and systems. But how does the management of Active Directory fit into the compliance model? This webcast presents the "Five As" of compliance as it relates to Active Directory. The webcast explains what is needed to comply with federal regulatory standards...
- Tags: Webcast, Compliance, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Standards, Microsoft TechNet, Quality, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Directory Services, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- Webcasts 2006-05-25
- Achieving HIPAA Security Standards Compliance by Implementing an ISO/IEC 27000 Series Information Security Management System
- This paper has been prepared to provide those organizations having an interest in compliance with the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA - 1996, revised 2003) Security Standards, especially those in the business of handling 'Electronically protected health information', with an understanding of the inter-relationship between those Security...
- Tags: Information Security, Compliance, Zygma Partnership, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Security, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2005-12-04
- PCI DSS and HIPAA: The Security Standards Share Common Ground
- One of the greatest challenges that the electronic transactions industry faces today is the issue of security requirements under various rules and regulations. For most people in the industry, the issue is focused on the specifics of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS, but the issue may...
- Tags: Security Requirement, Industry, Security Standard, CSRSI, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, PCI, Regulations, Security, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Develop a HIPAA Privacy Policy
- Most medical administrators have grappled with the issue of developing a HIPAA-compliant privacy policy. They have either developed a policy themselves or delegated the task to a staff member, possibly a medical group records administrator or hospital privacy official. But some administrators have not yet tackled this challenge for a...
- Tags: Administrator, HIPAA Privacy, Organization, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2007-12-01
