Latest standards and regulations news.
The cost of compliance, 08/14/07: Regulatory compliance is a form of asymmetric warfare. It will always be faster and cheaper for Congress to create new regulations than it is for businesses to comply with them. After all, the infamous Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is only a few sentences, but carries an enormous punch.
Sendmail adds outbound compliance to messaging security appliance, 08/13/07: Sendmail has released a new version of its Sentrion messaging security appliance that adds protection for outbound e-mail.
Podcast: Why IT is reading your e-mail: About one-third of large companies hire staff to read or analyze outbound e-mail, according to a new survey by Proofpoint. Keith Shaw talks with Keith Crosley from Proofpoint about the reasons why IT has to be vigilant, especially with the new wave of collaborative Web 2.0 tools that could mean even more outbound data leakage (11:41).
Security vendors shun idea of liability, 08/14/07: Software companies have reacted with predictable caginess to the Lords Science and Technology Committee recommendations that vendors be held accountable for flaws in their products.
Microsoft questions FCC’s ‘white spaces’ decision, 08/13/07: A prototype wireless device intended to share radio spectrum with television channels was malfunctioning when staff at the FCC tested it, Microsoft said Monday.
Microsoft loses key U.S. OpenXML vote, 08/11/07: Microsoft has lost a key vote in its quest to develop an alternative to the Open Document Format standard, backed by the open-source community.
DuPont using hosted software to automate environmental compliance, 08/10/07: To comply with environmental permit regulations, DuPont uses hosted software that automatically tracks whether thousands of requirements are being met in real time.
AT&T says it didn’t censor rock band Pearl Jam, 08/09/07: U.S. rock band Pearl Jam is crying fowl after an AT&T Webcast censored politically themed lyrics by lead singer Eddie Vedder, but the telecom giant said Thursday the editing was a mistake by a contractor.
