Stories about: IRS

Opportunities for relationship building occur every moment of a CIO's workday. Whether it's attending meetings, dropping by a peer's office or spending a few days at an offsite, a CIO is constantly in the process of forging ties.

The Centre for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the US president's 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses such as eBay and Amazon.com to collect personal data on their customers and share it with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

As long as they're meeting their regulatory reporting deadlines, most enterprises don't think a lot about closing their books more quickly.

Maybe they should start.

Increasingly, the speed with which an organization closes its books and reports its financial results is being looked at by practitioners, analysts and investors as a defining metric for evaluating whether the organization possesses the best possible processes and enabling technologies. And it turns out that many companies don't, even those making huge IT investments and supporting equally large IT departments.

In August 2004, US President George Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12), which requires federal agencies to set up one identification system for all staff and contractors who have access to sensitive facilities or information. The move to stiffen access control for several million people who work for the U.S. government and its contractors -- part of post-9/11 efforts to beef up security at federal installations -- has set off a scramble by 2 dozen agencies seeking to comply by October's deadline.

Companies on the front lines of the phishing wars share tactics for making their sites spoof-proof and protecting online transactions.

Former UK Inland Revenue Service CIO John Yard has managed one of the largest outsourcing contracts in the world - twice!

By assembling a star-studded team of vendors, the IRS thought its $US8 billion modernization project would manage itself. The IRS thought wrong. Now the agency’s ability to collect revenue, conduct audits and go after tax evaders has been severely compromised

At companies notorious for burning through CIOs, your credibility and effectiveness are in question the moment you walk through the door.

Does security have to be as ugly as a concrete barrier? Or can it be both effective and attractive? Planners in the US capital are putting well-designed physical security to the test.

The US E-Government Act of 2002: The dollars, the players, the hurdles, the future.

How do you captain the good ship enterprise when so many of your crew are working remotely?