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- 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
- Lithium battery restrictions for air-travellers
- From the 1st January the Transport and Security Administration TSA will enforce new regulations governing the carrying of lithium batteries on aircraft. The regulations prohibit the carrying of any ‘spare' or ‘loose' lithium batteries in checked baggage. This is obviously due to the violent explosions that...
- Tags: Lithium, Battery, Regulation, Lithium Battery, Lithium Cell, Engineering, Consumer Electronics, Regulations, Personal Technology, Government, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- Compliance Woes
- If you read many IT publications you are sure to come across more than one article on compliance woes - the hardships that organizations go through when having to meet what many usually call "unfunded mandates." Since I have sat, and continue to sit, on both sides of the fence...
- Tags: Compliance, Regulation, Organization, Regulations, Government, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- Intel and IBM, two corporations concentrating on social responsibility
- The chairman of Intel recently sat down for an interview with a News.com reporter, and one of the themes discussed was the issue of "social responsibility," or the belief that corporations should push initiatives that improve society at large in addition to those that simply add to the company's bottom...
- Tags: Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Internet, Taxes, Free Trade, Regulations, Government, Financial Planning, Finance, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Googltics deepens: More presidential candidates at Google
- The twenty-first century Web leader, Google, invited to its campus an eighteenth century thinker, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX), with surprising results. Dr. Paul (an obstetrician, and still practicing medicine as well as serving his Galveston-area Texas congressional district) followed Senators Clinton and McCain to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dr., Googltics, Litigation, Corporate Communications, Corporate Law, Regulations, Business Operations, Marketing, Government, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Take technology out of your security policies to maintain compliance
- Are you tired about wondering whether your organization is compliant with all the regulations that affect it? Mike Mullins has a rather unorthodox suggestion: Take the technology out of your policies. See why Mike says doing this will make it easier to address compliance in your company. As the...
- Tags: Regulations, Regulatory compliance, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, compliance, security, Security Solutions Newsletter, Policy, Mike Mullins, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2007-04-12
- Increase your chances of passing a security audit
- Security audits are a way of life—especially if your company is subject to complying with specific regulations. By better understanding how the audit process works and how auditors operate, however, you can create and operate a network that's compliant and secure—and easy to audit. Mike Mullins details what you can...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Regulations, security, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, security audit, deficiency, audit, network, Security Solutions Newsletter, Auditor, Mike Mullins, Networking, Finance, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2006-10-19
- Take steps to safeguard sensitive data
- Compliance is nothing to fool around with, and it's imperative that your organization understand its responsibilities for safeguarding protected data. In this edition of Security Solutions, Mike Mullins offers some guidelines for protecting private information. Is your organization responsible for complying with one or more of the many...
- Tags: Regulations, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, compliance, sensitive information, security, Security Solutions Newsletter, Information, Mike Mullins, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2006-06-29
- Net neutrality missing from sweeping telecom bill
- Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, released a draft bill that represents the most sweeping rewrite in 10 years of laws dealing with video, satellite, and broadband communications. Absent from the legislation are any "Net neutrality" regulations. However, if Stevens' legislation passes, a broader swath of Americans could...
- Tags: tax, telecom, broadband, news, regulations, net neutrality, Sonja Thompson, networking, telecommunications
- Discussion threads 2006-05-02
- Feds approve liberal election rules for Net
- Will the government eventually stifle robust Internet debate?The Federal Election Commission recently approved rules to regulate political ads on Web sites. Now that a formal regulatory framework is in place, proponents of online free speech worry that it will be tempting for the government to gradually stifle robust Internet debate.What...
- Tags: advertisement, airtime, Big Brother, Fiction, government, internet, it management, news, politics, regulations, Sonja Thompson, Truth
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- 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
- Integrate compliance into your disaster recovery plan
- Mike Talon gives you an overview of the issues you should consider regarding compliance law and your disaster recovery plan. As we begin to approach tax season here in the United States, many IT professionals begin to think about government regulation and how it will impact technology...
- Tags: Mike Talon, Regulations, Regulatory compliance, compliance, disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, Disaster Recovery Planning, Data Management
- Technical articles 2006-02-03
- I'm OK With This
- As the nature of technology changes, legal wiretapping technology has to change. ISPs will either have to support the change by changing their networks, or let the government do this to their networks. If you are an ISP, do you want the government messing around in your network hardware? I...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), GOVERNMENT, Vertical industries, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Net-wiretapping, network
- Discussion threads 2005-12-20
- 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
- Compliance Regulatory Overview: HIPAA
- How would you improve this TechRepublic e-mail course?
- Tags: HIPAA, Regulatory compliance, Regulations
- Discussion threads 2005-10-07
- Compliance Regulatory Overview: What's next?
- How would you improve this TechRepublic e-mail course?
- Tags: Newsletter Editor
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- Compliance Regulatory Overview: Sarbanes-Oxley
- How would you improve this TechRepublic e-mail course?Not really a courseThis is not really a course, just a front-page for more endless links to downloads and other scattered content. To be a real course, all of the TR content related to SOX needs to be sumarized and pulled together into...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, This IS
- Discussion threads 2005-10-07
- Compliance Regulatory Overview: USA Patriot Act
- How would you improve this TechRepublic e-mail course?
- Tags: Regulations
- Discussion threads 2005-09-26
- Compliance Regulatory Overview: FERPA
- How would you improve this TechRepublic e-mail course?10 Questions Short TestBy making a short test at the end of each lesson,readers could receive a feedback of how much knowledge baggage they are taking with them after each chapter. Then, they would surely be coming back again and again. For this...
- Tags: Newsletter Editor
- Discussion threads 2005-09-16
