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  Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Tags: services, security, outsourcing, it management, IT Leadership, data security, data protection, CIO role

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  Microsoft boots Chinese firm for leaking Windows exploit

  Microsoft on Thursday identified a Chinese security partner as the source of a leak last March in its highly restricted vulnerability information-sharing program.

  By Gregg Keizer | 04 May, 2012 21:05

  Tags: Security Hardware and Software, security, Microsoft, Malware and Vulnerabilities, IT industry, data security, data protection

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  Who's Got Your Mail?

  Trouble Ticket

  By Mathias Thurman | 24 April, 2012 00:03

  Tags: data protection, data security, Malware and Vulnerabilities, security

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  Workers did not exceed authorization when data stolen, says appeals court

  In a somewhat startling decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week ruled that several employees at an executive recruitment firm did not exceed their authorized access to their company's database when they logged into the system and stole confidential data from it.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 April, 2012 09:29

  Tags: data protection, data security, DRM and Legal Issues, security, U.S. Supreme Court

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  Univ. of Tampa says student info was exposed for 8 months

  An in-class project on advanced search techniques led to the discovery of a major data breach at the University of Tampa (UT) in Florida earlier this month.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 March, 2012 05:45

  Tags: data protection, data security, Google, privacy, security

• Move data to a safer, separate partition in Windows 7

  Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another.

  By Lincoln Spector | 02 March, 2010 04:18

  Tags: data security, Windows

• Protect data with on-the-go drive encryption

  This past January, the health organisation Kaiser Permanente reported a theft of an external hard drive from an em­­ployee's car. The hard drive contained data on about 15,500 Northern California patients, including their full names, medical record numbers, and, in some cases, gender, dates of birth, and other info on treatment and care received at Kaiser (but not patients' social security numbers or financial data).

  By Robert Vamosi | 03 March, 2010 03:59

  Tags: data encryption, data security

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