stewartjames, Author at TechRepublic

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Stewart James is a partner in the technology, media and commercial group at law firm DLA Piper's Leeds, UK, office. His areas of expertise include outsourcing and retendering, business process re-engineering, information assurance, data protection, and intellectual property issues.

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The desire to strike back is completely understandable and the suggestion that citizens should be entitled to retaliate may even sound reasonable. Photo: Shutterstock

Collaboration

Computer vigilantes: Breaking the law by hitting back at hackers?

Even if you are a victim of computer crime, you don't want to end up in court for taking the law into your own hands against hackers.

CXO

Outsourced security: Who pays when things go wrong?

Too many businesses see the cost savings and access to expertise offered by outsourcing security but ignore the issue of liability in the event of service failure.

Attacks have shown that a perimeter-based strategy is not enough to meet the needs of most networks. Photo: Shutterstock

Networking

Personal data: Time to rethink our whole security approach?

Securing data simply by defending the network perimeter is no longer enough to satisfy the law. IT departments need to consider a different approach.

Copyleft or free software licensing helps ensure open standards and the continuity of the code. Photo: Shutterstock

Developer

Agile projects: Does your contract cover off these five points?

Agile software development lets projects evolve through an iterative process. But the cultural change required by this approach has to be reflected in a different style of contract.

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Computer vigilantes: Breaking the law by hitting back at hackers?

Outsourced security: Who pays when things go wrong?

Personal data: Time to rethink our whole security approach?

Agile projects: Does your contract cover off these five points?

Employee performance review policy

Employee time off policy

Employee privacy policy

Security response policy