Mari-Len De Guzman

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For some, the mere mention of workplace monitoring may spark visions of surveillance gadgets and a pair of eyes watching from a dark corner. But monitoring technologies today are providing companies with new capabilities to comply with mounting regulatory mandates and the increasing risk of insider threats.

Web-based financial education firm Canadian Securities Institute (CSI) has learned a lot about doing more with less, virtually. When 32 of its Windows NT machines were reaching the end of lifecycle last year, CSI saw an opportunity to consolidate its server environment and optimize the use of its IT resources. Server virtualization allowed the Toronto-based company to retire its 32 servers and replace them with just four Intel Xeon dual-core processors on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Complying with message retention regulations is becoming too costly an exercise for many organizations and has created a huge demand for more intelligent message archiving tools.

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Ever felt like your IT system is not quite behaving as it should be, but all your anti-virus and detection tools come out clean? There

Canada's privacy chief has expressed concern over the use of employee surveillance technologies, and urged organizations to "look beyond intrusive solutions" in dealing with information and corporate security issues.

One Canadian security expert believes the key to thwarting threats of all types lies in the organization