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Police tech: How cops use IT to catch bad guys 12 February, 2008 08:01:31
In the US, police demonstrate how they use high-tech gear to fight crime and promote public safetyEver wonder what that cop is doing in his cruiser that's parked behind your car with lights flashing -- while your heart is pounding and you're searching for your license and registration? - +
Privacy, Data Integrity Critical 30 August, 2007 10:42:05
CSIRO says the preservation of privacy and data integrity will both be critical to the success of electronic service delivery for the Australian governmentCSIRO says the preservation of privacy and data integrity will both be critical to the success of efforts to develop a new form of electronic service delivery for the Australian government. - +
DVA Seeks Security 16 August, 2007 15:46:05
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is killing two birds with a single stone as it moves to tackle spam and address strict new data protection requirementsThe Department of Veterans' Affairs is killing two birds with a single stone as it moves to tackle spam and address strict new data protection requirements - +
Beneath the Coles Kimono: The Spotlight on IT Transformation 04 July, 2007 14:33:35
Flagged as the largest takeover in Australian corporate history, the bid represents the endpoint — but only as far as financial markets are concerned. For the executives running the businesses the takeover marks the beginning of a new era.By the time the board of retailing giant Coles Group recommended Wesfarmers' $21.9 billion takeover bid this week, the company had been in play for over a year. During that time its executives had to steer a steady course; maintaining shareholder value and positioning the business for future growth - setting to one side the knowledge that everything being done today could be unravelled tomorrow by a new owner. - +
Coles CIO: The Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical 04 July, 2007 14:38:29
In a timely interview, Coles CIO Peter Mahler talks with CIO magazine’s Beverley Head about the company’s IT and the controversy that arose during the takeoverThe relationship is much more sophisticated these days, throughout the corporate world. In Coles, technology requirements are defined by the business and IT working together, based on the business's strategic objectives. - +
CEO Fletcher and CIO Mahler: Two Takes on Coles IT 04 July, 2007 13:50:19
CIO magazine’s Beverly Head asked Coles CEO John Fletcher and CIO Peter Mahler about the company’s IT and the controversy that arose during the takeoverCIO magazine's Beverly Head asked Coles CEO John Fletcher and CIO Peter Mahler about the company's IT and the controversy that arose during the takeover. Here are their answers: - +
Coles Execs on the Record 04 July, 2007 15:01:01
The Coles takeover triggered an unprecedented public discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of its IT capabilitiesThe Coles takeover triggered an unprecedented public discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of its IT capabilities - +
Chaotic Approach to Privacy Hurting US 13 June, 2007 16:47:43
Jurisdictions like Australia and Europe with strong and reasonably consistent privacy protections in place may well gain from US lossesThe US is badly lagging the rest of the world on privacy legislation and apparently doesn't care - +
Sweet Charity 12 June, 2007 13:05:00
Charities can be potent mixes of passion, politics and penury. For CIOs working in the sector it can make for a challenging environmentA fifth of America's smallest not for profit outfits spend not a brass razoo on information technology. Most not for profits say they are starved of IT support. IT staff at these organizations are paid less than their peers in corporations and governments. - +
On Your Assets? 06 March, 2007 11:05:42
Controlling spiralling software costs is on every CIO’s agenda. “Best-in-class” companies do it by managing product inventory and usage, obtaining the best available software pricing, and not buying into the eight myths of Software Asset ManagementThe Executive Vice-president of procurement in Amsterdam for the major international finance company put it bluntly. "Whenever an employee comes to me and says he's saved $10 million," he told Michael Swanson, president of US-based software asset optimization firm ISAM (Information Systems Asset Management), "I interpret that to mean he wasn't doing a good job before, if he had that much waste out there." - +
The CIO-CSO Partnership 18 January, 2007 15:03:56
Where do the boundaries between IT and security begin and end? Who's responsible for what? How do you decide? When it works, the relationship between CIO and CSO can be a beautiful thing.TriWest Healthcare Alliance counts on John Pontrelli to work effectively with his technology colleagues to provide health care to 2.8 million members of the US military and their families in 21 states. As VP and CSO, Pontrelli's responsibilities cover both physical security and information security, and he has found it imperative to form a tight working relationship with his CIO, Rick Green. Pontrelli, a corporate security expert at Microsoft and WL Gore before joining TriWest three years ago, spoke with Michael Goldberg, about the partnership he has formed with his CIO.
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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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'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. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
Media release: 40 Per Cent of Australian Businesses Do Not Validate Their Data 04 July, 2008 10:29:00
Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
Computershare Selects Symantec for Data Loss Prevention Globally 03 July, 2008 14:52:00
DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
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