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Blog: Do Women In Business Really Matter? 10 June, 2008 14:27:57
There's been a lot of discussion about women in business based on concepts of fairness, ethics, civic-minded virtue, and various other do-gooder notions. But the obvious question remains (even though it isn't polite to ask); are women owned businesses really any better or any different from men owned businesses? And should we have set-asides and quotas to encourage growth of women owned companies? Aren't we past that already? - +
What Price Innovation? 05 November, 2007 13:44:31
CIOs say they want more than the traditional "your mess for less" relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening? - +
The Role of IT in Innovation: Friend or Foe? 02 October, 2007 15:25:16
Here's IT as an innovation enabler: An innovative IT team moves forward in step with the changing demands of the business - sometimes a little behind, sometimes in front, but for the most part, keeping in sync. That's how Stephen Agnoli, CIO at global law firm K&L Gates, sees it - +
The ROI of Trust 03 September, 2007 14:16:54
Security and privacy are bad words with bad histories, evoking bad connotations with most enterprise stakeholders. For companies to succeed at safeguarding their data, these words must go away. Here's why - +
Retailers Asked to Adopt Standard to Combat Card Theft 26 June, 2007 12:32:50
As governments around the world step up efforts to protect citizens from the potentially devastating effects of payment card data theft, merchants are being asked to comply with a new security standard. - +
The Struggle to Protect Enterprise Data 26 June, 2007 12:11:53
Long ago, when businesses kept sensitive information locked away in file cabinets and safes, it was relatively cheap and easy to store valuable data and control who had access to it. Today, enterprises invest millions in security, storage, and compliance technologies - all in the name of increasing visibility into where vital electronic information lives and how it is being defended. - +
Banks Say Share of Credit Card Security Costs Is Unfair 25 June, 2007 14:15:18
A panel of financial services and retail executives this month disagreed on which side bears the brunt of the burden to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. - +
Card Firms Loosen Grip on Data Rules 29 May, 2007 11:51:07
Large retailers and other key stakeholders in the payment card chain are finally being given a chance to help guide the development and modification of the data security standard imposed on them by the major credit card companies. - +
Retailers, Stakeholders to Have Say in PCI Standards 28 May, 2007 15:22:47
Retailers and other major stakeholders in the payment card chain finally have an opportunity to guide enhancements to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard mandated by the five major credit card companies. - +
What Would You Do As Chief Information Security Officer? 22 May, 2007 15:35:22
Becoming the chief information security officer (CISO) of a corporation makes you a strategic IT adviser to business management, the chief information officer, and the rest of the information technology staff. - +
Novell takes Microsoft InfoCard technology open source 27 March, 2007 15:05:26
Novell is developing an open source implementation of Microsoft's identity card technology that is functionally equivalent to the Windows software but will run on both Linux and Macintosh.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Citibank debit card fraud highlights ATM vulnerabilities 08 July, 2008 08:17:53
'Back-end servers are kind of a joke,' and the trouble doesn't end thereMalicious ATM intrusions, such as the late-winter breach that resulted in the compromise of Citibank debit card data, are not at all surprising given the vulnerable state of many of the servers and other components involved in processing such transactions, according to some industry representatives. - +
How to not have your Web site hacked like Sony's 07 July, 2008 08:23:22
A SQL injection attack was used to plant malicious code on pages of two popular Sony Playstation games - SingStar Pop and God of War, reports security company Sophos. Hundreds of Web pages from other businesses have also been compromised.The US Sony Playstation Web site is the latest high-profile victim of a hacker attack on business sites that's spreading malware at breakneck pace, says a security vendor. - +
AG launches review into national e-security 07 July, 2008 11:07:49
Howard's security agenda dragged over coals.A review of Australia's top e-security projects lead by the Attorney-General's Department has been launched to scrutinise the Howard's government's $73 million E-Security National Agenda. - +
Selling zero-day exploits has a down side 07 July, 2008 10:16:36
There is an ongoing argument about the ethics of selling 0-day exploits on the open market: It helps if you don't sell exploits targeting the company you work for.Information Security can sometimes be a funny field to work in. Some days it seems as if anybody with their hands on unpublished exploit code can sell it for all they're worth, and others it seems that they are set to become the target of law enforcement and the companies the code affects. It does help if you don't work for one of the companies that is set to be affected by the exploits you are trying to sell and aren't trying to bootstrap a competing company in the process. - +
'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider.
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Dimension Data Appoints New National Human Resources Director 08 July, 2008 16:58:00
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