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 ...

While many software vendors run software license audits on customers, there are some key differences customers should be mindful of when it comes to IBM, according to a new report from advisory firm ...

For a variety of factors, many companies inadvertently use unlicensed or unauthorised software. This can be a result of negligent software procurement practices, employees misusing company software ...

Perhaps nothing is as heart-stopping as when the IRS auditors come a knockin’, but the arrival of software vendors-with their audit checklists and licensing agreements in hand-isn’t for the faint of ...

With software licence audits on the up, analysts have revealed the pitfalls that businesses need to be aware of and how to avoid them. Software audits involve vendors requiring their customers to ...

Software audits have become so prevalent that companies offering “audit management software” have proliferated in recent years. In their Technology Law column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss ...

It was hard enough to manage IT infrastructures when everything was on-premise only. But today, with combined on-premise and multi-cloud deployments, say Michael Corey, co-founder, LicenseFortress, ...

The audit community’s adoption of electronic working papers to encourage collaboration has had an unintended consequence of creating dark data. That is, data trapped within these new documents, making ...

You don’t have to be pirating software to get in trouble during a compliance audit. “Where companies get ensnared is in the deployment phase. It’s not that they are trying to get away without paying, ...