IT Risk, and the Solutions, Run Deep
July 7, 2008
Companies spend as much as 80 percent of their compliance budgets securing IT, says Patrick Conte, the CEO of Agiliance. It’s a complex area featuring three interdependent layers that must be addressed: These areas–or, as Conte calls them, stacked dependencies–are the applications, the databases and the underlying infrastructure.
Data Management: Finding Common Ground between Business and IT
July 1, 2008
Nothing is more important than a company’s data. It’s ironic, then, that it is scattered throughout most organizations, fully the responsibility of neither the IT or finance departments. Tony Fisher, the president and general manager of DataFlux, says that a data steward will end this haphazard treatment and turn data into a potent and tactical corporate asset.
