What is Outbound Content Compliance? Outbound Content Compliance (also outbound content security or OCC) is a new segment of the computer security field, which aims to detect outbound content that violates the security policy of the organization and/or government regulations and prevent it leaving the organization. OCC deals with internal threats, either malicious or accidental, [...]

Cloud computing presents great opportunities for businesses and organizations to control costs and better align IT assets with business goals by using modern on-demand computing resources. Choosing an appropriate Cloud computing Service can be a complex decision. Providers of Cloud services can reduce barriers to adoption by demonstrating their capability to properly secure their clients’ [...]

Application Security, the Next Frontier of Compliance Application security is moving to the forefront Enterprises have gone to great lengths to improve information security and document compliance with regulations and industry standards like Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FFIEC, FISMA and ISO 2700x. But one critical area is only now coming into focus: application security.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is a set of specific security standards developed by the payment brands* to help promote the adoption of consistent data security measures that are needed to protect sensitive payment-card information. The standard applies to all organizations which hold, process, or exchange cardholder information from any [...]

More than 30 million users within businesses, government agencies, schools and other organizations world-wide have switched to Google Apps (adding over 3,000 businesses per day). Unfortunately, those that have compliance requirements may not be able to use all of the applications within Google Apps since it does not have any built-in document compliance or records [...]

It is not unusual for many small and medium-sized businesses to have several custom applications running in their environments. These applications range from customer facing websites, internal intranet web sites, windows applications, windows services, and small utility programs that run on a schedule. In a distributed environment these various custom applications all need access to [...]