The Company: Goldman Equipment LLC

When Goldman Equipment opened its doors in Waterproof, Louisiana 60 years ago, farmers still used mules.

Today, Goldman Equipment LLC has eight stores selling the most modern agricultural equipment. They are a full-line dealer for John Deere and Valley irrigation equipment, plus they sell or rent an extensive inventory of commercial sprayers and Liebrecht commercial agricultural ditching machines. Their Technologies Department evaluates topography, tests and analyzes soil, and determines the best fertilizers needed to maximize crop yield.

Sixty years ago, communications consisted of telephones and mail.

Today Goldman Equipment has an IT department in their Waterproof headquarters and relies on email as a major means of communication.

By Richard Moulds

High profile data breaches and the ever-increasing number of government and industry specific compliance regulations have escalated data security from an IT issue to a C-level priority.

The consequences of not adequately protecting data could result in a failure to meet compliance mandates or exposure to the risks of data loss or theft – all of which can cause monetary losses and negative publicity. In the face of these risks, one thing is clear: data security is a pressing issue for every enterprise.

By Peter Ettinger

In a world where counterfeiting is a $500 billion a year problem, there is little thought given to dangers that exist within enterprise-based systems. To most, counterfeiting is associated with currency or consumer goods. But to those people who manage the systems, the protection of documents once they are printed on the desktop has taken on new importance.

In industries throughout the world the protection and security of the printed version of electronically distributed data is as important, if not more important than the protection and security of the initial electronic data itself. The concern surrounding protection of these distributed documents has become so great that web sites like www.Authenticate-360.com are being developed with the goal of educating industries on counterfeiting, its impact on global finance, as well as methods of prevention.

By Pat Hanavan

Users are struggling with the need for instant, on-demand data recovery while data volume is rising 40 to 50 percent each year.  Businesses seek efficiency, a need not met by traditional tape backup, to fill backup and recovery needs.

When deciding between data protection options, business leaders need to understand the differences of each backup system, which include traditional tape-based backups, traditional disk-based backups, and continuous disk-based backups.

The following article is intended to provide businesses with an introduction of these data protection approaches as well as best practices for data center management through the use of continuous data protection (CDP), and an outline of how, in this new age of fast access, 24 X 7 uptime, and new compliance regulations, CDP can play an important role in reaching business and regulatory goals.

Last Friday a SecureWorks researcher reported that they had discovered a new variant of the Prg Trojan infecting approximately 46,000 users of online job sites.

Since then, Symantec released information that Monster.com unknowingly became an agent to distributing Trojan.Monstres through the ads served on their Web site. According to Symantec spokesperson, Dave Cole, director of Security Response for Symantec, “This Trojan is different from the typical Trojans targeting banks, PayPal, etc. It uses a unique approach in that it harvests information obtained from Monster.com. We are working with Monster to eliminate this threat; they have already shut down many of the vulnerable access logins.?

The slow and relentless march to gain control over the information assets of a corporation…enabling users to more efficiently collaborate and share information…facilitating records management principles to the world of electronic data?

Over the last few years, we’ve seen the emergence of enterprise-class content management and e-mail archiving as the grand solution to controlling the ever-burgeoning information explosion.

Content management and e-mail archiving applications have clear and compelling value propositions for consolidating data management practices, optimizing storage and facilitating more effective use of information assets. In many cases, such tools also enable records and information management, as well as enhanced compliance and risk management. But are they the panacea for legal discovery readiness?