Tag: data governance

Business Law

British Electronic Health Care Records – Will U.S. Organization’s Learn Lessons?

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Last week, Great Britain announced that it is “dismantling” a government program aimed at making health care records available electronically.  The objective of the program was to better facilitate communications between doctors, clinics, and patients.  The program, which began in 2002, was budgeted at $19 billion to implement.  As Dr. David J. Brailer, national coordinator for health information technology […]

Business Law

WSJ OpEd on “Cloud Security” Misses Its Target

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In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers.  The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]

Business Law

Data Governance Protocols Can Prevent Retaliation by Ex-employees

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With a greater reliance on the use of IT systems to support the overall mission of an organization, businesses need to understand the importance of implementing data governance protocols into its overall employment practices.  Securing the accessibility of mission-critical information is just one of the major tenets to a businesses long-term viability, and unless an organization takes […]

Data Security & Privacy

Helping CEO’s Communicate the Importance of Data Governance to Employees

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This past weekend it was reported that the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, and Lockheed-Martin had their networks attacked by cyber-criminals.  The Wall Street Journal highlighted today two different stories about how government and private organizations are responding to the daily deluge of cyber-attacks within their respective sectors.  The first story deals with how the […]