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  Updated: MatthewEllard 12 Dec 2012

  Without Ideas And IP You Are Nothing (Part 4)

  This is part of a four-part series on intellectual property. Other posts in the series may be found at Part one, Part two, Part three. To conclude our series of blogs on the value of information and IP, we’re going to look at the ways in which information and IP – which has become so valuable to businesses – can be protected. As the flow of information has shifted beyond the data centre, information management is more important than ever. To minimise information sprawl and its effects on the organisation, businesses can follow a few simple steps: Focus on the information, not the device...
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  Updated: MatthewEllard 12 Dec 2012

  Without Ideas And IP You Are Nothing (Part 3)

  This is part of a four-part series on intellectual property. Other posts in the series may be found at Part one, Part two, Part four. In our series of blogs about the value of ideas and IP, we have covered the vital need to protect information and also the instances when protection is not appropriate – either because it hampers business processes or because the data has become old and therefore worthless. What has become clear is that not all information is equal in value. Some is of very high value while other data can actually represent a cost to a business – either because it has to be stored and protected...
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  Updated: MatthewEllard 12 Dec 2012

  Without Ideas And IP You Are Nothing (Part 2)

  This is part of a four-part series on intellectual property. Other posts in the series may be found at Part one, Part three, Part four. In my last post discussing the value of an idea, it was argued that more attention needs to paid to understanding the value of intangible assets – information saved as digital records. A retailer wouldn’t leave its stock in an unlocked warehouse so why would – for example – an industrial designer leave plans and client details open to competitors via an unsecured USB drive or unencrypted email message? While there are some simple...
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  Updated: MatthewEllard 12 Dec 2012

  Without Ideas And IP You Are Nothing

  This is part of a four-part series on intellectual property. Other posts in the series may be found at Part two, Part three, Part four. We live in a knowledge-based economy – where ideas are money. In fact, according to the Intellectual Property Office, the UK design industry alone is worth over £15bn a year to the nation’s coffers. As a result, it has never been more vital for industry and individuals to protect the fruits of their intellectual labour. This includes customer information, financial or legal records, designs, written articles and records, or any number of other different types of explicit, recorded...
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  Updated: tzambrovitz 27 Aug 2012

  Integration with Purpose: Symantec and VMware

  With IT budgets that are shrinking or barely holding steady, it’s vital for today’s businesses to make the most of their current infrastructure. Fortunately, however, leveraging virtual infrastructure to enable cloud computing is possible without having to rip and replace the entire infrastructure. Whether an organization is replacing legacy technologies or adapting them to virtualization, Symantec and VMware have teamed up to help businesses make the transition to virtualization as smoothly as possible – with approximately 100 points of integration to date. This integration effort goes beyond simply enabling the technologies to work together, to the IT users themselves. We have developed various integration levels ranging from...
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  Updated: Tim_Matthews 15 May 2012

  What can you get for $500,000? Notification for one data breach

  U.S. companies are paying more to notify people impacted by data breaches, according to the 2011 Cost of a Data Breach Study: United States. The average cost to notify victims of breach increased in this year’s study from approximately $510,000 to $560,000. At the same time, the average size of a breach is down 16 percent and the costs associated with the detection and escalation of data breach events declined as well, suggesting that companies may be more efficient in investigating data breaches. So, if companies are better at detecting breaches and breaches involve fewer records, why are notification costs continuing to creep up? The...
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  Updated: Sean Doherty 01 Mar 2012

  Security in the Cloud

  It’s no secret that information is the prize in today’s war between businesses and cybercriminals. And just when organizations had come to terms with the fortress-style protection needed to keep information safe within the corporate walls, technology evolved to include virtualization and cloud. These advances provide increased business flexibility, improved scalability and can create significant cost savings, but they also increase your exposure to outside threats and therefore drive up risk. And, as if to make matters worse your InfoSec team has to figure out how to keep corporate data safe when it is being accessed out of the office on mobile devices, as well as ensuring the security of the virtualized data center which is highly dynamic in nature. Symantec is teaming up with the leading virtualization provider VMware, to address some of the most pressing security issues affecting businesses globally as they take the step to virtualize more business critical...
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  Updated: fdesouza 29 Feb 2012

  Adapting your Business: New Innovations to Secure the Digital Native

  In his RSA keynote, Symantec CEO Enrique Salem spoke about how the Digital Native is shaping tomorrow's security today. Born into a world of connectivity, Digital Natives are a growing generation that is making a significant impact on businesses by the way they work, think and interact. For this generation, the lines between connectivity in their professional and personal lives is blurred. While this may bring about greater productivity, it can also lead to increased risk. Businesses must embrace this change and get ahead of the potential vulnerabilities. We're innovating to ensure our customers have the protection they need to embrace the hyper-connected enterprise brought on by the Digital Native. We’ve announced some exciting new solutions that address the challenges of today and those that will emerge in the future: A new security control point for the cloud Companies need identity and...