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IDC's latest report challenges preconceptions about ERP solutions being cumbersome to implement and unable to deliver promised efficiency improvements.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/arndb.NSF/Current/NT0000B916CFOs bracing for lawsuits, stock market to jitterThe question, which came from the back of a conference room at a posh desert resort, reverberates through corporate boardrooms: even if our company suffers no significant breakdowns at the beginning of next year, how can we defend ourselves against shareholder lawsuits if year 2000 problems throughout US business sectors lead to a 20 per cent drop in the stock market?Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/arndb.NSF/Current/NT0000B90AAustralia to strengthen Net regulation Australia is set to get tougher on Internet regulation, a Government minister announced last week, specifically to afford further protection to children who might stumble across objectionable material while browsing the World Wide Web.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/arndb.NSF/Current/NT0000B90ECommonwealth continues process of Y2K compliance Confronted with one of the biggest management issues in its history, the Commonwealth Government has released the latest report on its Y2K compliance and, ironically, it is the Department of Communications, the Arts and Information Technology that appears to be the least prepared.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/arndb.NSF/Current/NT0000B912Asia lags in online transactions -- IDCVery few Asian companies to date have developed Web sites which can handle business transactions, according to Dennis Philbin, managing director of research company IDC Asia-Pacific. And while the number of companies here that have set up a Web presence has increased significantly over the last 18 months, there are still a number of factors inhibiting quicker electronic commerce development, he said yesterday at the Second Roundtable on E-Commerce in Asia.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/nwwdb.NSF/mailout/NT00005D8AY2K denial proliferates Many companies are in denial over their chances of beating the year 2000 deadline, according to an IT executive who has spent years tracking the issue.
"A lot of organisations are running late," says Ross McLean, former Asia/Pacific director of Hitachi Data Service's Y2K division and now managing director of MS400 Asia Pacific.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/CWTCurrent/NT0000737A IBM to reveal electronic business initiativesIBM was scheduled to announce a raft of new products and services yesterday designed to help corporate users distribute data and applications more securely over the Internet for conducting business electronically. IBM will also debut virtual private network (VPN) enhancements with beefed up security features that allow users to more safely share important information across an enterprise to users in remote offices or to their suppliers and business partners.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/CWTCurrent/NT00007376Gartner shows rise in Y2K-related IT spendingThe gap between leaders and laggards has widened among companies and countries addressing the year 2000 issue, according to the most recent quarterly report released here yesterday by the Gartner Group at its Spring Symposium/ITxpo '99.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/arndb.NSF/Current/NT0000B976Conference draws out Y2K first timersDespite years of hype surrounding the year 2000 bug, hundreds of organisations lined up on Tuesday to attend a conference detailing the most basic of millennium issues. Staged by local testing tools software vendor Mercury Interactive, the Year 2000 Testing seminar dealt with only the most rudimentary Y2K issues such as explanations of the problem itself, its potential business impact and options for alleviating the problem.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/CWTCurrent/NT00007386Informix and SAP to deliver on LinuxSoftware heavyweights Informix and SAP have joined forces to deliver SAP's R/3 enterprise resource planning suite on the Linux platform. The move lends even more credibility to the burgeoning operating system, following similar announcements from major hardware and software suppliers.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/CWTCurrent/NT000073AASecurity experts monitor hackers pulseInternet Security Systems has its finger on the hackers' pulse, and it's planning to boost its presence in the Australian security market just to prove it. Steven Laskowski, ISS' new Australian and New Zealand managing director, has started a local shop-front for the company to look after a substantial customer base including 25 government departments and agencies, 11 banks and financial institutions and five telcos.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/nwwdb.NSF/mailout/NT00005DD6Half of Visa's disputes, fraud from e-commerceAlthough only two per cent of Visa International's credit card business relates to Internet transactions, 50 per cent of its disputes and discovered frauds are in that area, according to the company. It is consumers who are responsible for most of the disputes and fraud, not merchants, Mark Cullimore, director of emerging technology at Visa International Asia-Pacific, said at the Second Roundtable on E-Commerce in Asia.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/nwwdb.NSF/mailout/NT00005DCAKeep your hands off the Net: Magaziner warns govtsThe Internet revolution is the mechanism to re-invigorate world economies and all world governments need to do is sit back and watch. Ira Magaziner, a former senior policy adviser on the Internet to US President Clinton, issued the advice here on Friday, claiming government bureaucracy is too slow to cope with the technology.
Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/CWTCurrent/NT0000D5D6Y2K failures to increase soon, says GartnerThe rate of failures caused by the year 2000 bug will accelerate rapidly from the middle of this year onwards, according to Chris Morris, vice president of Gartner Group's Asia-Pacific division. About 25 per cent of the eventual Y2K failures will happen before the January 1, 2000 deadline, as computer systems increasingly need to interact with next year's dates, Morris said.
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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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Information security governance: Centralized vs. distributed 05 September, 2008 10:15:00
Should security policies, procedures and processes be managed within a central body, or distributed at an individual level? You need to find the middle ground.The management of information risk has become a significant topic for all organizations, small and large alike. But for the large, multi-divisional organization, it poses the additional challenge of determining how to deploy an information security governance program among what are often disparate business units. Should the policies, procedures, and processes that define the program be developed and managed within a central, corporate body? Or perhaps responsibility would be better placed at the individual unit level? Is there a workable middle-ground? - +
DNS error brings Sophos antivirus updates to a halt 05 September, 2008 13:40:00
Optus, Internode and Equinix affected among others.A sporadic Domain Name Server (DNS) error has blocked Sophos anti-virus updates around the world. - +
Ouch! Security pros' worst mistakes 04 September, 2008 08:05:00
We've all done regrettable things on the job, but does any valuable wisdom come of it? Four security pros candidly explain their biggest blunders and what they learned in the processIt was a mistake so bad the person who made it asked that his name and company not be mentioned here. Let's call him Frank. - +
Security ROI: Fact or Fiction? 03 September, 2008 08:32:00
Bruce Schneier says ROI is a big deal in business, but it's a misnomer in security. Make sure your financial calculations are based on good data and sound methodologies.Return on investment, or ROI, is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive return on investment, and a good one at that, in order to be viable. - +
Information Security and the Importance of Context 01 September, 2008 10:00:00
Those entrusted with information security must raise their contextual awarenessWhen the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was first created, it created a sudden need for tens of thousands of screeners. Getting a job as an airport screener was a pretty easy process. It seemed as though if you had a pulse, you were in. Jump forward to 2008 and becoming a screener is a bit harder as the TSA has instituted background checks, has upped the educational requirement to include a high school diploma or GED, and added other significant requirements.
Frost & Sullivan: Soaring Demand For Hosted Web Conferencing Services 08 September, 2008 08:44:00
Viva la Verticals! Key to Vendor Growth is Through Vertical Market Opportunities, Says IDC 05 September, 2008 11:05:00
F-Secure delivers fastest protection in the online world 04 September, 2008 16:50:00
Rogue security apps dominate Fortinet's Aug 2008 IT threat report 04 September, 2008 16:00:00
IntraPower Signs Deal with Australia’s Largest Service Station and Convenience Store Network 04 September, 2008 10:07:00
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Still Sneaking In: The Threats Your Security Tools Aren't Telling You About
Web 2.0 applications are all the rage, offering us tremendous value when it comes to collaboration and communication. They also open us up to new kinds of attacks however, and can cause problems in keeping systems and data secure. Read on to learn about the new attack methods and how you can defend yourself and your business.
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