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Intellectual property cyber theft expected to rise

The number of intellectual property (IP) cyber theft incidents in the next 12 months is expected to increase, according to 58 percent of respondents to a recent Deloitte poll. When asked which category of potential adversary they believe is most likely to attempt theft of their organisations' IP, the prevailing percentage of respondents (20.1 percent) answered "employees or other insiders." Yet, only 16.7 percent of respondents said access to IP is very limited, on a need-to-know basis only.

Iron Mountain Australia reborn as ZircoDATA

Iron Mountain’s legacy business in Australia will operate as ZircoDATA Pty Ltd following approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for the purchase of the domestic records and information management business by a consortium of experienced industry investors – Housatonic Partners and Dennis E. Barnedt.

Wanted – chief information governance officers

Technology alone will never be enough to manage the vast volume and variety of information created in today’s world, according to the National Archives of Australia.

Waverley Council takes HR digital with esigning

Sydney’s Waverley Council is accelerating its move to the digital age with the help of esignatures, as part of the 150-year-old council’s Digital Waverley program.

25 Exciting things to do with an Information Asset Register

Information is a vital, perhaps the most vital, business asset for an organisation. Nearly everything an organisation does involves using information in some way. It is used to support effective decision making and facilitate ongoing operations and the delivery of programmes, products and services; it evidences practices and performance, business activity and transactions, rights and obligations. Information is the glue that holds an organisation’s structures and processes together.

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