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If Google Apps is Hacked, Los Angeles Gets Paid
Google and its partner, Computer Science Corp., has struck a major blow to on-premise email software vendors by scoring a major cloud services deal with, according to press reports. The one catch: CSC will pay stiff penalties to the city of angels if its implementation of Google Apps suffers a security breach. Los Angeles plans…
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More Government IT Security Dollars Up for Grabs
The federal government’s IT security spending growth will outstrip total federal IT spending growth over the next five years, according to a new report from the analysts with INPUT. The government business analyst firm predicts compound annual growth in IT security spending within the U.S. government of 8.1 percent through 2014. That should mean a…
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IT Service Trends Highest Paying Biggest Demand Top Geographies
IT Service Trends Highest Paying Biggest Demand Top Geographies Q3: A Return to Normal? Online IT services marketplace OnForce recorded a return to pricing stability and installation work in the third quarter – good news for a market that’s been battered by a recession and leaning on break/fix work. OnForce released some of the key…
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Nokia Could $1 Billion Patent Recourse from Apple
(Reuters) – Apple faces the possibility of having to pay Nokia up to $1 billion for the technologies used in iPhones sold so far if it loses a lawsuit brought by Nokia, analysts said. The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia filed the suit in the United States on Thursday, saying Apple had infringed 10 patents…
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Database Security: The Path to Compliance Zen
As more organizations seek to fill their security compliance gaps these days, many of them are finding the most glaring holes are in the database. As the prime repositories of all of that sensitive data that regulations such as SOX, HIPAA and PCI DSS were designed to protect in the first place, databases continue to…
