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 ...

If you have received a software audit request from your software vendor or one of the industry trade groups representing software publishers, such as the Software & Information Industry Association ...

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 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 ...

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 ...