The Business Software Alliance's (BSA ) claim that 90% of all audit letters sent in 2012 were the result of tips from whistle-blowers should be a wake-up call to CIOs. IT chiefs may well ponder how to ...

In two recent articles, we offered one network admin’s experience with software licensing compliance and then shared member reactions to the article. The responses to these articles indicate a couple ...

“There are two types of companies: those that have been audited [for software violations] and those that will be.” So says Robert J. Scott, the managing partner of legal and technology services firm ...

SINGAPORE--Some companies in Asia are making sure they comply with licensing laws in their respective countries, by turning to external professionals to audit their software assets, industry observers ...

Let’s get right to the meat of the Business Software Alliance vs. User debate: is your software legal? In my last column I mentioned some of the things you and I would consider proof that we acquired ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a software watchdog group, has launched a monthlong grace period to give companies running unlicensed software the chance to become legal without facing past ...

Earlier this month, I began talking about the new software Mafia, aka the Business Software Alliance (check out “The software protection racket, Part 1 and Part 2“). Two goals this week: get the BSA ...

CIOs would do well to consider open source as a defense against software audits by Microsoft and other increasingly desperate enterprise software vendors. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist ...