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Governments Should Draw on Wisdom of Crowds 19 June, 2008 12:33:19
A new report from Deloitte says that leading businesses have trained people to expect high-quality, personalized services, and these are standards which citizens are now applying to government - +
Governments Urged to Learn From Businesses 08 May, 2008 12:49:44
Citizens are demanding better e-government services from their governments - +
Pulling the Plug 03 May, 2006 14:24:16
Since day one the issue of offshoring has been a scratchy one, raising both eyebrows and hackles. And now, with some organizations chafing three-to-four years into their offshore contracts, apparently there's a real itch to scratch. - +
The IT Security Buck Stops Here 10 May, 2004 11:58:31
Need to convince corporate leaders with objective measures of security's value? Start here. - +
End of the Wire 10 September, 2003 17:28:43
The fanfare surrounding wireless technology is so thick it can be hard to find payback amidst all the promises. Meet three heads of IT in Australia who learned to see past the hype and deliver real benefits to the enterprise - +
When Documents Rise from the Grave 07 August, 2003 11:15:19
It is not just pieces of paper but even seemingly robust corporate reputations that can be shredded when organisations go in for ill-considered destruction of electronic documents. - +
Those Who Do Not Learn from History are Doomed to Repeat It 07 August, 2003 10:50:23
Part I: A Failure of Governance and Systems - +
Beware the Ides of March 07 August, 2003 10:37:53
Part II: A Tale of Management too Strong and IT too Weak - +
Getting the Big Guns Onside 07 May, 2003 12:19:11
By the late 1980s, a major IT project under way at the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFTsc) was beginning to drain significant resources, with the well quickly running dry. The project, according to former SWIFTsc security adviser Erik Guldentops, now a management consultant and executive professor at the Management School of Antwerp University, suffered from "moving goalposts" for requirements, budgets and objectives. Business, IT and audit management began sparring over who should take the blame. Tensions escalated to the point where hostility and friction were close to paralysing the project. - +
Learning From Disaster | Part One - Under Scrutiny 11 November, 2002 11:48:00
A report from research firm Gartner points out that the "Enron Effect" is already making the CIO's job tougher. - +
Learning From Disaster | Part Two - Transparently Obvious 11 November, 2002 11:38:08
"I am incredibly nervous that we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals," she wrote in a letter to Kenneth Lay, the corporation's chief executive officer. Congressional investigators looking into the company's collapse revealed the letter's existence in February. The letter, said one, is "breathtaking in detail".
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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.
Zepto release the Mythos, the 2nd installment in the Centrino 2 refresh 09 July, 2008 12:05:00
Symantec Data Protection Solutions Preferred by Users and Industry Experts 09 July, 2008 11:56:00
Frost & Sullivan: Australia’s Mobile Advertising Spend to Grow 300 Per Cent in 2008 09 July, 2008 07:57:00
DIARY ALERT - Symantec data leakage prevention seminars 08 July, 2008 17:20:00
Dimension Data Appoints New National Human Resources Director 08 July, 2008 16:58:00
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