Daily News Archive

Monday, November 7th

 The Daily News wasn't published.

Tuesday, November 8th

"Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.” -- Kaoru Ishikawa

 

The Picks of the Day

Gospels of Failure

“The reports on three high-profile disasters offer rich lessons in why organizations fail -- and how not to.”

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/91/gospels.html

 

U.S. Multinationals Looking Beyond Initial Sarbanes 404 Compliance to Business Improvement

“Most senior executives take a positive view of their company’s initial compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The majority has since moved on to align their quarterly Section 302 reporting with their annual 404 assertion—and beyond, to establish a year-two compliance process.”

http://www.barometersurveys.com/production/barsurv.nsf/vwAllNewsByDocID/98B3EB90EB85DE98852570AC00757B50

 

Legal and Regulatory Compliance

Patriot Act Changes Point Out Need for Proactive Compliance

“The PATRIOT Act, passed within a month of Sept. 11, 2001, is considered an amendment or reiteration of the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970. Section 352 of the PATRIOT Act required all financial institutions, as defined by the Bank Secrecy Act, to establish an anti-money laundering (AML) program within six months of the passage of the Act.”

http://www.insurancenetworking.com/protected/article.cfm?articleId=3661&pb=ros

 

Deleting Data for Compliance's Sake

“When normal deletion methods like the Recycle Bin or the delete command are used, the computer's operating system, for the sake of speed, creates an illusion that data has been deleted. In fact, it merely earmarks that region of a disk or drive as being available for new data to overwrite the old data.”

http://www.bpm-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=39171

 

Security and Risk Management

Compliance brings IT security to the board table

“Nearly two-thirds of 1,300 survey respondents (61 per cent) cited compliance as a top-three primary driver of information security but worms and viruses accounted for only 53 per cent of answers. Meeting business objectives was ranked third (49 per cent).”

http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39153876,00.htm

 

How to Involve the Business to Create a Solid Continuity Plan

“Business-continuity planning has grown more sophisticated in the past few years, going beyond the technical recovery of IT systems and getting networks back online. Whether it's a carryover from Y2K and 9/11, or the demands of Sarbanes-Oxley, CIOs find themselves in the position of not only making sure technical disaster-recovery plans are in place and working but also coordinating larger continuity efforts with all business functions.”

http://cio-asia.com/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=2930&pubid=5&issueid=71

 

Human Error / Safety

No News

 

Outsourcing / Globalization

Outsourcing assumptions turned upside down by report

“The outsourcing of technology jobs to low-wage countries will provide a $68.7-billion (U.S.) benefit to the U.S. economy in 2005, said a study released yesterday, challenging key assumptions about shifting work offshore.”

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051101.gtrtickermain01/BNStory/Technology/

 

Building a Bridge to bio-outsourcing

“A Menlo-Park based drug research company is opening a facility in Beijing next month, hoping to bring the cost benefits of outsourcing to the biopharmaceutical industry.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9954207/

 

Economics / Business / Misc.

Flu pandemic could damage Asian economies

“The Asian Development Bank on Thursday projected a bird flu pandemic in Asia could kill around 3 million people, cause economic losses of up to nearly $300 billion and possibly push the world into a recession.”

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9908962/

 

Toyota's profit rises on global sales

“Toyota Motor Corp.'s profit rose 2 percent in the July-September quarter, lifted by growing sales around the world — in sharp contrast with the dismal results at U.S. counterparts General Motors and Ford.”

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9922145/

[Proof of what an unrelenting pursuit of quality can achieve.]

 

Wednesday, November 9th

 The Daily News wasn't published.

Thursday, November 10th

"It is useless to make a formal decision with which group members informally disagree.” -- William G. Dyer

 

The Picks of the Day

History's Worst Software Bugs

“Here, in chronological order, is the Wired News list of the 10 worst software bugs of all time … so far.”

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/bugs/0,2924,69355,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

 

Data on 3,000 Consumers Stolen With Computer

“Social Security numbers and other information about more than 3,000 consumers were stolen recently from TransUnion LLC, one of three U.S. companies that maintain credit histories on individuals, in the latest of many security breaches that have focused congressional attention on identity theft and fraud.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801573.html?nav=rss_technology

 

Homeland Security Funds Advanced Cyber-Security Projects

“With a shrinking budget, the Advanced Research Projects Agency's cyber-security arm has to leverage internal expertise with that of academia and industry to get research done and have products commercialized.”

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173600460&tid=6004

 

Legal and Regulatory Compliance

Compliance sacrificed for IT cost cutting

“Meeting regulatory requirements is taking second place to IT cost savings, according to a study published today by Expand Research.”

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2145738/compliance-sacrificed-cost

 

An Ounce of Retention

“Nudged by regulators and litigators, companies are making new investments in electronic records management.”

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/4390992?f=alerts

 

Security and Risk Management

Developers Held Liable for Software Bugs?

“Hold software developers liable for security defects in their products!  Well, that's what former White House and Microsoft security advisor Howard Schmidt says, anyway.”

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3562191

 

SAS 70

“SAS 70, the auditing standard, is finding its way onto CSOs' desks. Used correctly, it's a nice start on verifying business partners' security controls.”

http://www.csoonline.com/read/110105/sas70.html

[This is a great article.  Another quote:  “Unfortunately, consultants say many companies are skipping the hard work and treating SAS 70 as a security rubber stamp.”]

 

Aligning COBIT, ITIL and ISO 17799 for Business Benefit

“To help executives understand the value of these best practices and how they should be aligned to provide value to business, the IT Governance Institute (ITGI) and the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) jointly released Aligning COBIT, ITIL and ISO 17799 for Business Benefit, available as a free download at http://www.isaca.org and http://www.itil.co.uk.

 

Human Error / Safety

FCC abandons E911 deadline

“Net phone companies won't be forced to cut off callers who can't dial into the enhanced 911 network by Nov. 28, the Federal Communications Commission announced.”

http://news.com.com/FCC+abandons+E911+deadline/2100-7352_3-5939325.html?tag=html.alert

 

Katrina flood wall failures probed

“The Louisiana attorney general's office is investigating whether the collapse of canal flood walls during Hurricane Katrina warrants criminal or civil action.”

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/09/katrina.floodwall.ap/index.html

 

Outsourcing / Globalization

A billion minds unleashed

“Imagine a billion educated minds, and what they might be capable of. Now imagine those minds belonging to people whose desire for discovery is matched only by their hunger for prosperity -- the kind of hunger that can only be born out of grinding poverty.”

http://www.macleans.ca/switchboard/columnists/article.jsp?content=20051114_115582_115582

 

Outsourcing gets closer to home with CAFTA

“Touting themselves as the ‘new Asia,’ pro-business and investment organizations across Latin America are talking about the benefits of ‘nearsourcing.’”

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2005-11-07-nearsourcing-usat_x.htm

 

Indian BPO Providers Tighten Data Security

“First, there was backlash. Anti-outsourcing sentiments from the West kept Indian BPO companies on the defense, trying to convince the developed world that outsourcing was not a threat to labor forces around the globe. Now many Indian BPO companies have a new issue to face: data security.”

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1141479,00.html

 

Economics / Business / Misc.

SOA: Battle of the Titans

“Suddenly, the major enterprise vendors are all deciding that they will own SOA and make it the foundation of their own development and partner ecosystem. In addition, each vendor hopes to win the hearts and minds of the customers and the partners at the same time.”

http://www2.cio.com/analyst/report3932.html

 

MTBF: what lifespan can you expect?

“Definition: Mean time between failures (MTBF) and the related mean time to failure (MTTF) are measures of hardware reliability, usually expressed in hours. They indicate in statistical terms the working lifetime of a given component: The higher the figure, the more reliable the product.”

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm?featureid=1944

 

Friday, November 11th

 The Daily News will not be published.