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The Art of Data Management Compliance, Part 1: Keeping Pace

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There's an alphabet soup of acronyms -- including SOX, HIPAA, GLBA and FISMA -- that enterprises must become familiar with in their effort to comply with data management regulations. Compliance with these regulations keep them in the clear legally, and also helps them stem the tide of cyber-crime.When it comes to properly managing and protecting critical enterprise data and information resources, Corporate America is stuck between two strongly opposing forces.

The U.S. is world "cyber-crime" headquarters (followed closely by the UK), according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2007 Internet Crime Report. The term cyber-crime refers to criminal activity in which computers and networks like the public Internet play an essential part in the lawbreaking. Americans reported losses of US$240 million from global cyber-crime in 2007, a $40 million increase from 2006, the April 2008 IC3 report states.

The IC3 received 206,884 complaints of online fraud in 2007. Cyber-criminal activities include accounting fraud, identity theft, malicious software Blackberry Professional Software from AT&T. Save up to 57% until June 6th. Click to learn more., data breaches, espionage, sabotage and newly minted esoteric misdeeds such as thumbsucking, podslurping, bluesnarfing and much, much more.

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