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Compliance Requirements
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
If you think compliance obstacles, goals and requirements were tough in 2006 and 2007, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. New technology, more security threats and a whole mess of new variables will be complicating the issue next year for IT project managers and decision makers.
Take the hint, and don’t wait until mid-December to start thinking about this stuff. Do it now while your blood pressure is still within normal levels.
Manish Goel--senior vice president and general manager, data protection and retention solutions, network appliance--of Network Appliance, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based IT consulting company, says that some of the toughest obstacles will revolve around data security and compliance. Goel is responsible for disk-to-disk backup, disaster recovery, compliance and digital archival product portfolios at the $3 billion data management company.
Goel insists that all companies will have to deal with the following four pain points:
1. SOX 2.0: “Sign here to indicate that your information is safe, secure and available.” Similar to signing off on our financials, “You can bet that CEOs will be signing off on information before they go forward,” says Goel. “But the question is, are they prepared? While SOX is undergoing scrutiny about its costs and impact on business, other types of data …
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