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  isf-rep - The IET 

  http://kn.theiet.org/news/jul08/isf-report.cfm

  Despite awareness of the security risks for enterprise data associated with outsourcing, many companies persist in ignoring potential problems until it is too late, a report from the Information Security ... Forum (ISF) has warned. 'Information Risk Management in Outsoursing and Offshoring' declares that information risk management is often integrated as an afterthought, and information security professionals become involved "too late in the lifecycle". This can be explained by "a lack of awareness at the highest levels", and a failure to understand the importance of information risk management through all stages of an outsourcing project. “Failure to involve information risk managers at the start of a project and through its lifecycle increases the enterprise’s exposure to risk; whether it’s data theft, information leakage or disputes that may arise from questions of ownership of intellectual property,” says the report’s author Simone Seth. “Information mangers need to identify all outsou   [More...] [Less...]

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