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Compliance a growing IT concern
Increasing regulatory pressure has elevated compliance to the top of IT concerns, and it will stay there, says IBM software executive.
Companies are facing growing pressure from regulatory issues and the need to ensure compliance, according to IBM executive.
"There is an increasing stress from the auditing process," said Peter Rajnak, Asean security solutions manager at IBM's Tivoli software division.
The IBM executive said Asia is seeing an increased emphasis on regulatory compliance, driven primarily by more collaboration between various countries as globalization extends its reach. This makes IT governance and compliance a top priority for companies, he said.
"This makes internal network security too costly to ignore," he said.