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Glentworth consultants appoints CEO

Information management firm Glentworth has appointed Neil Makepeace as Chief Executive Officer. Director and senior partner of the firm, Makepeace’s appointment comes during a restructure of the growing Glentworth Board of Directors, with founder Neil Glentworth appointed as executive chairman.

How responsible are employees for data breaches and how do you stop them?

Data breaches have very quickly climbed the information security agenda and that includes the data breach threat posed by employees and IT professionals.  Now a new report says the insider problem is far worse than we had previously imagined. The Verizon Data Breach investigations report claims that 14% of breaches are due to insiders and that’s not counting the further 12% of breaches that come from IT itself.
 

How to evaluate ECM vendors

With the volume of information available to us today online it is easy to identify vendors to include in RFIs and RFPs. Vendors that have consistently performed well in analyst’s research, are well respected in the market and have slick websites with marchitecture that appears to address your every whim. You likely do 70% of the research and know a fair bit about them before they even get in the door.

Iron Mountain buys Aussie duo

American storage giant Iron Mountain has announced two Australian acquisitions in the one week, beginning with records storage firm The Document Centre (TDC) in Launceston for an undisclosed sum and following up with the $2.5 billion buyout of multinational Recall Holdings.

Watson arrives at Immigration and Border Protection

Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection has announced it is deploying IBM's cognitive computing platform, Watson in a new initiative to boost capabilities. As part of the program, analysts within the Portfolio will use Watson to draw further insights from unstructured data sources such as news feeds and government reports.

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