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Social Media Compliance Isn't Fun, But It's Necessary

Harvard Business Review

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. Complicating matters, social media in the enterprise is spreading at viral speeds. "Go

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". We''re not a technology firm." "We In other cases, such as Nationwide Insurance ''s October 2012 security breach, companies invoke client-attorney privilege to seal the evidence. He''ll protest: "What wartime?" "We''re

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