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Big data privacy concerns spur research, innovation
Big data privacy concerns are becoming common. Many organizations already have the data they need –but they’re afraid to use it. A group of MIT professors, all panelists at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, offered some enlightening -- and chilling -- potential uses for gathered and analyzed data. For researchers,
Getting Big Data Ready for Business: Tackling Big Data Governance and Quality
How the word ‘hacker’ got corrupted
What is generally called "hacking" today was originally called "cracking" in technical circles - as in cracking a safe. Hacking, in its original meaning, has nothing to do with malicious behavior. The term "hacker" seems to have originally developed decades ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States,
Edward Snowden: how the spy story of the age leaked out
Yahoo! says it had 13,000 data requests
Yahoo! said that it had received up to 13,000 requests for information from US law enforcement agencies in the last six months. Yahoo! is one of the popular tech giants that came under heightened scrutiny since government contractor Edward Snowden leaked details of PRISM, a vast program that saw nine
90 Percent of Organizations Will Have Personal Data on IT Systems They Don’t Own or Control
Organizations should create a privacy program that keeps personal data at arm's length, but under control, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that by 2019, 90 percent of organizations will have personal data on IT systems that they don't own or control. More>>
The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security
In their rush to replace outdated hardware and IT infrastructure, organizations fail to manage and dispose these properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. An IT director was suspected of taking them. More>>