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According to the 2002 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey, 70 per cent of Australian organisations increased their expenditure on information security in the 12 months prior to the study being conducted. The survey was produced jointly by AusCERT, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the NSW Police Service, and its findings may well reflect how prominent security has become in the minds of chief executives and boards, especially since September 11, 2001. However, to be effective the right person, at the right level in the organisation, needs to be in charge of information and systems security, and this has not always been the case.

Patrick Corporation IT manager David Hackshall received a CV a little while ago from a consultant wanting to charge the company $230,000 a year for ERP work. It is not going to happen, says Hackshall. Not these days. Patrick is a very lean shop with an ERP support staff half the size of that of most other organisations and absolutely no requirement for consultants to help it with future work

How to go from partner to plaintiff in one not so easy lesson.

Your competition may be redefining the ‘e' in espionage: the theft of proprietary information, long conducted through the turning of employees, is increasingly performed via hacking.

Privacy has often been cast as the victim of the information age. New legislation that comes into force in December aims to change that.

Who represents IT interests in Canberra? The vendors. And as long as CIOs are kept at arm's length from the process, that's the way it will stay.

Last June CIO's contributing editor Sue Bushell gave prominent CIOs the opportunity to voice their opinions on the their relationships with vendors. The criticisms came hard and fast. This year we thought we'd turn the tables, but in a kinder, gentler fashion, and find out which CIOs vendors admire.

When the Y2K bug threatened to disrupt business, CIOs had to convince management to pay attention to the issue. But with cyber-attacks, CIOs do not have a hard-and-fast deadline - an attack could come any day, and the consequences could be more lethal to a company's operations than Y2K ever was. That's why many CIOs are lobbying Mahogany Row for cyber-incident response team (CIRT) funding

Caesar Formica knew survival of his IS department depended two factors: adding value for their customers and making sure those customers recognised the added value

Successful e-commerce Web sites are like a light bulb - what you see is not even close to what you get

Everyone has ideas about how survive in the new economy. Some of those ideas are better than others