EDD actualización: 2009 Socha-Gelbmann descubrimiento electrónico Informe de la encuesta ya está disponible

2009 Socha-Gelbmann descubrimiento electrónico Informe de la encuesta ya está disponible

El pleno del 2009 Socha-Gelbmann electrónica Informe de la Encuesta Discovery está disponible para su compra. Para más detalles, póngase en contacto con George Socha (george@sochaconsulting.com, 651.690.1739) o Tom Gelbmann (tom@gelbmann.biz, 651.483.0022).

Estamos en las etapas finales de preparación del informe de los participantes y distribuirá que a parte

a través de EDD actualización: 2009 Socha-Gelbmann descubrimiento electrónico Informe de la encuesta ya está disponible.

Before sending executives on assignments in countries with questionable business practices, HR professionals must help prepare them for the ethical predicaments that may await them there

No one is naïve enough to think that bribery, kickbacks and other corrupt business practices don’t exist here in the United States. But it’s also understood that such practices are, el mejor de los, unethical and, at worst, illegalnot to mention potentially costly for companies caught engaging in them.

But in some countries, sobornos, illegal payments and other underhanded activities are simply an accepted part of doing business. And if recent statistics are any indication, the current recession is only compounding the problem.

According to a recent Ernst & Young survey, half of the 2,246 respondents in major countries across Europe said they felt that one or more types of unethical business behaviors was acceptable, incluso 25 percent who thought it fine to give a cash bribe to win work. By country, that figure rose as high as 38 percent in Spain, 43 percent in the Czech Republic and 53 percent in Turkey.

In the same survey by the New York-based business and financial advisory firm, more than half of respondents said they expect corporate fraud to increase over the next few years, con 54 percent of participants from Western Europe and 55 percent from Central and Eastern Europe expressing the same sentiment.

a través de Human Resource Executive OnlineStory.

La SEC Acusa a la compañía de telecomunicaciones de California con el soborno y Violaciónes Otros FCPA

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Alameda, Calif.-based telecommunications company UTStarcom, Inc. with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for authorizing millions of dollars in unlawful payments to foreign government officials in Asia.

SEC Complaint

UTStarcom agreed to settle the SEC’s charges and pay a $1.5 million penalty among other remedies. In a related criminal case, los EE.UU.. Department of Justice announced today that UTStarcom agreed to pay an additional $1.5 millones de multa.

UTStarcom spent millions of dollars on illegal bribes to win and keep customers in Asia,” said Marc J. Fagel, Director of the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office. “It is important for corporate America to recognize that resorting to these methods of boosting profits contributes to a culture of corruption that cannot be condoned under U.S. law.

a través de La SEC Acusa a la compañía de telecomunicaciones de California con el soborno y Violaciónes Otros FCPA.

Web mejora la colaboración en el golpecito para 2010

SharePoint, Microsoft’s broad and wildly popular business platform, is growing from good to great. SharePoint 2010 enables robust business collaboration for the enterprise and the Web by offering a fuller breadth of capabilities and new enterprise-class management tools.

While the improvements made to SharePoint 2007 popularized the product across industry segments with its collaboration and workspace capabilities, portal, and enterprise content management benefits, SharePoint 2010 boasts an even richer, more advanced and integrated feature set that readily enables business collaboration among employees, colleagues, and partners.

The foundational business-collaboration features of SharePoint 2010 incluir: document collaboration; wikis and blogs; RSS support; discussion boards; project task management; contactos, calendarios, and tasks; e-mail storing and management; better design for working with Microsoft Office 2010; y, richer offline support using SharePoint Workspace 2010.

Industry experts say that with SharePoint 2010 Microsoft filled in the gaps of previous versions to offer a dynamic product that will have both existing SharePoint users and new customers clamoring.

“Microsoft definitely made SharePoint 2010 more compelling for current SharePoint customers and new potential customers,” says Guy Creese, research director at Burton Group.

a través de Web mejora la colaboración en el golpecito para 2010.

In-House Legal Departments and the Use of Cloud Computing

In-House Legal Departments and the Use of Cloud Computing

International Law May Confound Benefits

By Greg Freemyer and Hope Haslam

La computación en nube, the process of storing and processing data on remote, outsourced third-party-owned servers, is growing in popularity, largely because it provides users with access to state-of-the-art and constantly updated software and fast infrastructure — without the overwhelming costs. As technology advances at exponential speeds, companies must find ways to remain competitive. Buying the latest and greatest, only to find it obsolete before it is paid for, is a progressively unsustainable option.

For international companies, sin embargo, there are tremendous legal hurdles to accomplishing an effective conversion. Two of the most troubling are:

  1. EE.UU.. preservation requirements; y
  2. International privacy laws.

As companies begin to set up, or more likely expand, a cloud computing system, they must understand the legal issues that need to be addressed in order to avoid subjecting the company to sanctions, fines, penalties and enormous e-discovery costs when litigation arises.

[seguido] In-House Legal Departments and the Use of Cloud Computing.

Ex-empleado dice Seagate Tomó Tecnología, La evidencia destruida

A decade-long lawsuit pitting a tiny company called Convolve against Seagate Technology has taken an unexpected turn after a whistle-blower claimed that Seagate had appropriated Convolve technology and later destroyed evidence in the case.

The whistle-blower, a former Seagate employee named Paul A. Galloway, has provided what is described as “an eyewitness account” accusing Seagate of taking hard-drive technology from Convolve and incorporating it into its own products, according to documents filed recently with a federal court in Manhattan.

The court filings include claims by Mr. Galloway that Seagate, the world’s largest producer of computer hard drives, tampered with evidence tied to Convolve’s nearly 10-year-old patent infringement case against the company.

The allegations are detailed in an affidavit filed by one of Convolve’s lawyers as part of an effort to reopen the voluminous court record to include testimony from Mr. Galloway.

a través de Ex-Employee Says Seagate Took Technology From Convolve – NYTimes.com.

Adobe será principal blanco de los hackers en 2010, Según un informe – PC World Business Center

Adobe Systems&después de; Flash y los productos Acrobat Reader se convierten en los blancos preferidos de los hackers en 2010, superando a aplicaciones de Microsoft Office, un proveedor de seguridad predijo esta semana.

“Los cibercriminales han elegido siempre a los productos de Microsoft debido a su popularidad. En 2010, anticipamos que el software de Adobe, especialmente en Acrobat Reader y Flash, se llevó el primer lugar,” el proveedor de seguridad McAfee dijo que en su “2010 Predicciones de amenazas” informe (PDF).

Los hackers suelen centrarse en los productos más utilizados con el fin de lograr el máximo impacto. Durante mucho tiempo que ha hecho Microsoft su objetivo primario. Pero el gigante del software ha reforzado la seguridad en sus últimas versiones del sistema operativo, los piratas informáticos que llevan a buscar nuevas metas.

CTO de Adobe reconoció recientemente que el software de su compañía está siendo atacado con más frecuencia, y dijo que la compañía ha intensificado sus esfuerzos para responder.

“Hemos visto absolutamente un aumento en el número de ataques, todo lector en Flash Player en particular y también en cierta medida,” CTO Kevin Lynch dijo a los periodistas en la conferencia Adobe Max en octubre. “Estamos trabajando para disminuir la cantidad de tiempo entre el momento en que sabemos acerca de un problema y cuando lanzamos una solución. Esto solía ser un par de meses; ahora&después de;s dentro de dos semanas para problemas graves.”

a través de Adobe será principal blanco de los hackers en 2010, Según un informe – PC World Business Center.

Dont pasar por alto reglamentos de datos federales y estatales – BusinessWeek

Tracking new regulations and compliance rulings from federal and state government can be dizzying—they include FRCP, HIPAA, GLB, y más. But now more than ever, the government expects all businesses to comply, not just large corporations.

Hoy, every company is responsible for its data and for securing its customers’ information, no matter how much it costs to do so. In today’s litigious business world, the possibility of being dragged into a lawsuit is very real, and if that happens, you will likely need to make your information available to the process. And woe to the company that cannot comply with basic regulations, because a judge will not accept that you thought those requirements applied only to the big companies.

A good example is a recent investigation involving Freddie Mac. A small agency working with Freddie Mac was pulled into the investigation, and the agency had to complete a request by the government for an electronic discovery search. The agency assumed the cost would be minor, but it did not have an automated approach to managing its data in place. The inaccessibility of the data required an army of attorneys and staff to perform a hands-on physical review. The cost came to $6 millón. When the agency sought relief, it was turned down by an appeals court. It should have known better.

a través de Todays Tip Dont Overlook Federal and State Data Regulations – BusinessWeek.

Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged – NYTimes.com

A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the worlds digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of the world’s wireless systems.

The action by the encryption expert Karsten Nohl aimed to question the effectiveness of the 21-year-old GSM algorithm, a code developed in 1988 and still used to protect the privacy of 80 percent of the worlds mobile calls.

“This shows that existing GSM security is inadequate,"El señor. Nohl, 28, told about 600 people attending the Chaos Communication Congress, a four-day computer hacker’s conference that runs through Wednesday here. “We are trying to push operators to adopt better security measures for mobile phone calls.”

a través de Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged – NYTimes.com.

Recientes U.S. “Detección electrónica” Sanciones en el Orden U.S. Caso patente Crea una nueva amenaza para las empresas chinas – Martindale.com

Tradicionalmente, the U.S. courts both federal and state have forced private litigants to exchange, through their lawyers, highly confidential paper documents recording the most intimate details olos EE.UU. business affairs. Such “civil, descubrimiento” often included disclosure under a “orden de protección” of both technological and financial trade secrets. By the late 1990s, sin embargo, the U.S. courts recognized that the most important business records were being created and stored electronically, rather than on paper. To keep U.S. civil litigation current with this rapid change in business recordkeeping, de diciembre 1, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a new and controversial set of procedural and evidentiary rules governing the discovery of “información almacenada electrónicamente” in U.S. litigios civiles.

[seguido] Recientes U.S. “Detección electrónica” Sanciones en el Orden U.S. Caso patente Crea una nueva amenaza para las empresas chinas – Martindale.com.