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Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core - their databases. Many don't have a comprehensive database security strategy to defend against sophisticated attacks, track sensitive data, or even meet emerging regulatory requirements.

In addition, organizations tend to focus on detective controls rather than preventive measures when it comes to database security.

By contrast, Forrester finds that by implementing a c

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This white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. And since a fundamental responsibility of any information technology professional, as well as any C-level executive, is to ensure that the data upon which any company is created is protected - scrupulously following these shortcuts should also ensure that you lose not only your data but your job as well.

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This book provides a practical set of detailed steps to implement an Information Governance program, as well as the associated automation.

IBM has assembled a comprehensive approach to Information Governance that delivers the industry's strongest portfolio of products, services, and best practices to address every organization's needs.

 

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The Capital Markets Guide 2011 (163 pages)

Focusing on technological innovation, business strategy and geographical markets, this guide provides thought leadership on how capital markets firms can capitalize on real-time data and leverage new risk strategies for a trading advantage.  

When Bank of America’s assets reached $2.3 trillion—ten times more than Exxon Mobil— The Economist noted that managing such a huge portfolio may be “beyond the ken of mere mortals.” Capital markets firms should return to playing offense, focusing on innovat
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2012 is set to be a dynamic year in the financial advisory sector. With the FSA’s Retail Distribution Review (RDR) coming into effect in December 2012, IFAs have to up the ante with standardised professional qualifications and increased transparency of charges and services. With time running out to comply, it is not a matter of when, but how to prepare for RDR. In fact I recently attended FIMA Europe in London which echoed this trend. Post-RDR preparation is the number one priority for internal

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“You could be a meteorologist all your life and never see something like this. It would be... the perfect storm.” So goes a classic line in one of the few great Hollywood fishing epics. The Perfect Storm finds fisherman George Clooney and his shipmates venturing out into dangerous waters and being trapped between two momentous and powerful storm fronts. Asset managers may well empathise.

 

On one front, ever more powerful regulation is blowing in, growing as it does. This regulation comes with eve

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Striking the balance in data governance

Despite recent news reports that the Basel III liquidity requirements are to be pared back, financial institutions are still facing vast regulatory challenges. They already have to hold more capital and liquidity, as well as report on this daily. Going forward, institutions will also have to demonstrate the processes and controls used to put together reliable information. Never before have risk and data management been so interwoven.

The real challenges facing institutions looking to showcase the

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