Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope is full of industry news and will allow users to:
- stay up to date on new trends and hot topics that affect how software is used in business
- find ideas for identifying and eliminating software and IT management risks
- guidance on the latest software asset management (SAM) best practice
- read about changes in legislation and lobbying activities to protect the IP rights of software publishers
- provide links to forthcoming conferences, seminars and webinars, results of recent surveys, white papers, tools reviews and more.
All of the content on Kaleidoscope is provided by FAST IiS and its Members. If you would like to know more about providing content for Kaleidoscope, please contact Breda O’Shea at breda.oshea@fastiis.org.
February 2012:
Wikipedia blackout - shedding light on proposed US anti - piracy moves?
Nick Kounoupias
DMH Stallard
A well publicised Wikipedia blackout took place on 18 January 2012: a protest, joined by others with a prominent internet presence, such as Google, against the proposed U.S. IP protection legislation “SOPA” (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and “PIPA” (the Protect IP Act, or, more accurately, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act). Although the protest did little to raise the understanding of the content of the Acts or educate people as to the pros and cons of this combined legislation, the blackout has, undoubtedly, alerted industries to the existence of these bills.
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February 2012:
IT Security Threats
James Thompson
F-Secure
IT security threats change at a rapid pace, there is a constant game of cat and mouse happening behind the scenes between security vendors and malware authors. Researchers come up with a novel method of mitigating a particular exploit, so the 'bad guys' develop their own new methods to circumvent security measures.
F-Secure's labs in Finland receive a huge amount of malware, typically between fifty thousand and three hundred thousand samples every day. By analysing the purpose and sometimes the origin of this malicious software we have a very good understanding of the current 'threat landscape'. We know, for example, that there are groups of developers who ...
February 2012:
European Commission to increase the Data Protection burden for businesses.
Dai Davis
Percy Crow Davis & Company
Recently leaked information gives details of a European proposal for a new data protection law1. The European Commission has been debating such a law for at least 12 months and indeed sought submissions on possible changes over that period2. If the leaks are to be believed, the new law will require EU countries to adopt stringent new data protection measures. If breached they will allow for companies to be fined up to 5% of annual turnover. This is in stark contrast to the present theoretical maximum fine of £500,0003.
The United Kingdom Commissioners Office (ICO) has had this power to fine companies only since 6 April 2010. However, the ICO has used this power sparingly. Indeed in the first 20 months the ICO has fined only two ...
February 2012:
A Buyers Guide to Cloud Services
This extract is taken from White Paper 6 “A Buyers Guide to Cloud Services”. To download the full paper and others in the series go to http://www.cloudindustryforum.org/register-your-details-to-download-our-white-papers
Step one:
Be clear on your needs and constraints:
Whilst it sounds like it is stating the obvious, many first time users of Cloud Services face scenarios that they have never had to face before because everything they did was constrained to their internal IT capability and as such issues were handled as they arose. The devil is in the detail and as there is no universal cloud proposition it is essential that thought is given to ...
