Stories about: Simon & Schuster

It's been a brutal couple of years. Terrorism, preparations for war, a clampdown on IT spending, corporate scandal and malfeasance - it's left us shell-shocked, hoping that whatever comes next has got to be better. We think it will be.

The only thing worse than network security threats are business executives - including CIO's - who bury their heads in the sand.

Books aren't going away. But new technologies are sparking changes for a centuries-old industry - and pushing CIOs from the backlist to the spotlight.

Both inside and outside a company's gates, great things often begin at those fortunate moments when people with knowledge and vision pool their dreams.

When cold statistics and systems thinking threaten to cloud your judgment, remember this simple key to a long-lived business organism: People and culture count most.

In California, two thrill-seeking teenagers penetrated supposedly secure computer systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force. In southern Florida, 911 emergency networks were jammed by a trouble-making programmer in Sweden. In New York, an infamous band of Internet hackers is alleged to have vandalised the New York Times Web site-twice in two days. The FBI is spearheading a new effort to defend against the ravages of information warfare. But are you ready to trust security to the feds?