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Archive 2005
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Crushing
Compliance
In the past few years, Congress has quickly passed several laws intended to shore
up national security, shield investors from unprincipled CEOs, and protect citizens'
data privacy. Its motives may be honorable, but the general result, as with most
legislation, is oppressive rules for the honest while the lawless often find
and exploit the loopholes. Ever since SOX was passed, software companies have
been adding compliance support to their list of product virtues. Seeing so many
promises, we wondered: Which types of compliance products really deliver? And
can you build an equally good solution yourself? View
the results here.
From IT Architect Magazine, December 2005
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Tech Provides Answers To Headache Of Multiple Regulations
Compliance products offer secure access, streamlined operation. As regulation
in the insurance industry continues to grow, insurers increasingly are finding
themselves facing what seems like an overwhelming task in trying to bring their
processes and operations into compliance with a plethora of requirements. HIPAA,
GLB, Sarbanes-Oxley and a group of other regulations that aim to make consumer
information more private and secure also make the job of a company’s compliance
that much harder. In response, the technology community is developing software
that can help make data gathering, storage and retrieval more reliable and secure,
and can make the reporting process easier
From National Underwriter, October 2005 (subscription required)
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Shades of Gray: What Is “Acceptable and Tolerable” in
Electronic Communication?
The records we thought we destroyed are still there, ready to be coaxed from
our PCs by sophisticated search and compliance technology. Corporate scandals
and ethical improprieties are being identified and caught on a regular basis
through the monitoring and surveillance of employee communication—e-mail,
instant messaging, Web-mail, blogs, and even handhelds.
From Paul Johns, RMA Journal, October 2005
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Are You Managing Communications Risk?
New Approaches to Mitigation Strategy Expand Executive Options
In this paper, Delphi Group argues that regardless of whether or not the current
intensity of the climate for compliance rises or falls, the lessons and costs
to the industry from the communications-based mistakes and malfeasance we have
seen dictate that executives now need to treat digital communications and its
content as a strategic issue for the firm. Focusing management attention on digital
communications risk will point up both the breadth of issues that are already
lying in wait for the unwary and the shortsightedness of many of today's digital
security investments.
Delphi Group, October 2005
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Messaging Reportedly Makes Financial Industry Vulnerable To Compliance Breaches
Orchestria's findings indicate that most policy breaches are due to a misunderstanding
of policy rather than malicious intent. Orchestria said today that according
to its survey of US financial services firm employees, electronic communications
such as e-mail, instant messenging, Webmail, blogs, chat rooms and handhelds,
present a significant threat to the security of intellectual property and also
risk violations of compliance with corporate and regulatory policy. Survey respondents
included employees of all levels from various types of financial institutions
across the industry.
From Information Week, September 2005
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Orchestria Study Shows Messaging Makes Financial Industry
Vulnerable To Compliance Breaches
“In an industry where protecting intellectual property plays a key role
in the health of the business, it is troubling that more than 75 percent of the
employees surveyed felt that it would be easy to send proprietary information
outside of the company,” said Orchestria CEO Bo Manning. “As technology
advances and more channels of communication are accessible in the work place,
the potential for breaches will only increase.”
From Messagingpipeline, September 2005
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Orchestria
Brings Compliance Tools to Canadian Market
Toronto firm adds software to integration and testing laboratory. A company focused
on helping enterprise IT systems comply with government regulations has decided
Canadian firms are ready to tackle the same challenge as their U.S. neighbours.
From IT Business Canada, September 2005
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Rev Tracker: Orchestria 4.0
This edition spotlights Orchestria's Active Policy Management Analyzer.
From Network Computing's Security Pipeline, Patricia Thomas, August 2005
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Communicating by the Rules
Orchestria is one of a relatively new breed of products designed to prevent leaks
of sensitive information via network communication channels. Unlike the network-based leakproofers we
reviewed in June, Orchestria uses a client-side agent to monitor e-mail, IM,
and Webmail communications at the desktop and to block noncompliant e-mail messages
in real time.
From InfoWorld, July 2005
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Waters
"Because recipients of the Waters awards are determined by readers,
many of whom are our customers, we are especially honored to be selected
as the Best Messaging Compliance Solution,"
Bo Manning, CEO, Orchestria
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Internet Access
Orchestria just released a new version of its policy management software for
emails, instant messages, web mail, blogs, and chat room entries. It lets an
organization set messaging policies and rules, then watches employee communications
as they are taking place, identifies problems, and tells employees what policy
they may be violating before blocking or quarantining potentially offensive messages.
From Credit Union Tech Talk, July 2005
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Blogging Your Secrets Away
Blogs aren't all bad. And there are practices you can adopt to protect trade
secrets. More high-profile companies are turning to blogs as a way to communicate
with customers, employees and the public. But as the popularity of corporate
blogs rises, the vulnerability of confidential information has also dramatically
increased. Employees could be blogging away your secret sauce.
From SC Magazine, Paul Johns, July 2005
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Safeguarding Corporate Information: The New Market Of Information
Leak Prevention
Current security solutions are well-suited to enforcing simple policies, but
they can’t provide more subtle detection. As the need for security increases,
Forrester sees an emerging market, information leak prevention, filling the gap
with products that monitor, measure, and prevent the inappropriate disclosure
of sensitive business or customer information.
From InfoWorld, July 2005
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ESG and
Lehman Brothers Talk on Waters Panel
Archiving e-mail is now a mandated liability. Firms have to save every electronic
missive, no matter how mundane or innocent, in the event of an investigation
for alleged wrongdoing. As with any far-reaching regulation that is fueled by
politically ambitious investigators and angry watchdog groups, confusion can
ensue. In June 2005, Waters Magazine assembled a panel of industry experts to
discuss the challenges of archiving and retrieving e-mails. The panel consisted
of Joseph Steffan, director of technology compliance for Lehman Brothers; Brian
Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group; and Paul Johns, vice
president of global marketing for Orchestria, the compliance solutions firm.
From Waters, June 2005
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Keeping An Eye on Email, IM and Blogs
It's sad but true that some companies feel the need to monitor employee email
and instant messages for missives that break a law or are embarrassingly inappropriate.
This week Orchestria came out with a new version of its policy management software
for emails, instant messages, web mail, blogs, and chat room entries.
From Network Magazine, June 2005
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eWEEK
Names Orchestria Analyst Choice 2005
"The Orchestria product provides the broadest policy coverage eWEEK
Labs has seen, using client- and server-based tools for monitoring and
managing e-mail, instant messaging and Web-based communications. The results
of this approach garner APM 3.1 our Analyst's Choice designation,"
Michael Caton, Senior Analyst, eWeek
Read the Press Release
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Vendor of the Year
Orchestria emerged at the forefront in aiding the largest Wall Street firms with
one of their most pressing compliance concerns: meeting the global research analyst
settlement requirements
From Compliance Reporter, May 2005
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COMPLIANCE REPORTER Selects Orchestria as Vendor
of the Year
"Orchestria has emerged at the forefront in aiding the largest Wall Street
firms with one of their most pressing compliance concerns: meeting the global
research analyst settlement requirements."
Mark Malysko - Compliance Reporter
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Orchestria Makes Its New York Debut
A year ago, Orchestria was a British expatriate in New York, steadily gaining
traction with a technology for enforcing compliance with electronic communications
rules…
From Securities Industry News, May 2005
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FORTUNE
Names Orchestria Breakout Company 2005
"Had Orchestria's software been installed at Merrill Lynch, they might
never have been able to send those snide e-mails privately ridiculing the
stocks he was publicly recommending."
Andreas Cervenka, of FORTUNE
Read the Press Release
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APM: Who, What and Why
Before internal e-mails reached the desk of Eliot Spitzer, there was Monica Lewinsky's
hard drive.
From Securities Industry News, May 2005
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“ Active policy management focuses on pre-empting
non-compliant electronic messages and preventing them from becoming part
of permanent corporate records.”
From The Radicati Group, May 2005
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“There’s a strong case for implementing an electronic
policy manual, capable of implementing policy at the point of interaction.
We ask ‘is it time to burn the policy manual?’ ”
From Waters, April 2005
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Active Policy Management - Transforming Passive Data Archival
into a Trusted Source for Compliant Records
Active Policy Management (APM), which is the topic of this paper, enables IT
and business professionals alike, to transform inconsistent manual processes
(e.g., protection, access rights, archival media, retention, disposition) into
automated, consistently enforced policies. Further, to truly harness the potential
of an archive while still protecting the repository from intentional or unintentional
corruption, active yet flexible software-driven policies must be created and
then enforced in a consistent, yet minimally invasive manner.
Peter A. Gerr - Enterprise Strategy Group, April, 2005
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This Compliance Monitor article debates the value of a ‘publish and hope’ strategy when it comes to Real-Time Prevention. We ask, is it time to burn the policy manual.
From Compliance Monitor, March 2005
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A new white paper by The Radicati Group, titled Active Policy
Management, Third Generation Compliance for Today's Corporate Environment,
might make you think twice about your current message archiving efforts.
The consulting firm takes a look at this new category of supervisory and enforcement
programs designed to monitor corporate electronic communications in a way that
helps companies to reduce the amount of non-compliant communication that passes
through their systems.
From A Better Approach Than Archiving by Mitch Irsfeld, March 2005
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SC Magazine newsletter
In a guest column, Orchestria's CEO , Bo Manning, looks at the impact of constantly
changing regulations on financial institutions Each new mis-selling or market
abuse scandal brings with it a tightening of the rules: whether it is a major
shift like the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Basel II Accord,
or the cumulative effect of successive administrations and regulatory regimes
adding new sections and clauses to existing regulations.
Read the guest column: Intelligent Review - the death of random review?, by Bo
Manning March 2005
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Does
your email trail lead to jail? As a guest writer for Compliance Solutions
Advisor, Orchestria's Pete Malcolm goes into detail on how companies
can have a more intelligent approach to storage and questions the logic
of companies taking a 'better safe than sorry' approach to storage and
saving everything. In highly regulated markets, this strategy simply
doesn't work. Read about a new approach to storage here.
From Compliance Solutions, January 2005
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IBD Network
“Orchestria has gained significant traction in the market and
have emerged as a leader in this space”
Alison Murdock
IBD Network Group
Read the Press
Release
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"Although
some companies may need to upgrade their corporate systems to provide
information required by new law, many executives see these capabilities
as adding value beyond mere compliance."
Frank Brown, Pricewaterhouse Coopers
From Compliance Solutions, January 2005
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