Companies that follow these steps will give their IT department the flexibility to respond to employee needs and the tools to bring cloud sprawl under control.

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"We are currently contacting a number of students by telephone who we have identified as being at risk of having their details compromised, to advise them of the necessary security steps they should follow to ensure their details are protected, " said Heather Laing, fraud prevention and detection manager for the Student Loans Company.

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