Latest standards and regulations news.
Seeking compliance in a mobile world , 09/10/07: When Thomas Weisel Partners went public last year, it forced some dramatic changes in how the San Francisco-based investment-banking company approached IT — and in CSO Beth Cannon’s job description. She recently completed an 18-month retooling of the policies and procedures the company follows for everything from managing change to using mobile devices. Looking ahead, she sees a new crop of threats on the horizon that target the mobile devices that many of the firm’s 650 employees use daily.
Broadcasters continue fight against wireless ‘Net, 09/10/07: The association of television broadcasters launched a campaign on Monday designed to persuade the Federal Communications Commission not to allow portable wireless Internet services in the so-called “white spaces” of TV spectrum.
Your voice, your e-mail – what’s the difference?, 09/13/07: We all know that e-mail is discoverable in court proceedings, that regulators can demand e-mail during audits or other inquiries, and that internal requestors – such as HR or in-house legal counsel – will periodically request copies of e-mail for a variety of purposes. In a unified communications system in which voicemail is delivered to an inbox, voice messages are also a message, technically identical to an e-mail in many respects.
Does 802.11n spell the ‘end of Ethernet’?, 09/11/07: The 802.11n wireless LAN standard may finally provide enough throughput to make that RJ45 jack in the wall as outmoded as a gaslight fixture. What do you think?
Tips for migrating to high-speed Wi-Fi, 09/12/07: Now that Wi-Fi market share leader Cisco has turned up the volume on 802.11n, enterprises are likely to get more serious about planning for the high-speed wireless LAN.
The spiraling cost of compliance, 09/07/07: IT executives and security professionals know that the web of laws, regulations and private-association rules that must be complied with gets wider, more complex and more costly every day.
U.S. patent bill still faces obstacles, 09/10/07: Patent overhaul legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives Friday still faces significant opposition as it heads to the Senate, opponents said.
