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  • Google's enterprise strategy

    Google's global vice-president of enterprise, Amit Singh, sat down with CIO Australia to talk strategy, products and the changing nature of the CIO role

    Written by Georgina Swan • 17 Jan. 12 14:33

  • Rohan Davidson, CIO Rio Tinto Iron Ore

    As CIO of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group Rohan Davidson plays a critical role in overseeing the IT requirements of the operations the mining company owns and manages across North America and Australia. In Western Australia’s Pilbarra region alone, for example, Rio Tinto operates a network of 14 mines, three shipping terminals and the largest privately owned heavy freight railway in Australia, which spans 1400 kilometres.

    Written by Matt Rodgers • 09 Dec. 11 07:00

  • Security and Google Apps

    An indepth discussion about patching, Cloud computing and how Google deals with security incidents

    Written by Georgina Swan • 22 Aug. 11 22:36

  • Emerging technologies: Is this your company's biggest challenge?

    If the number of devices talking to your network was about to increase from 50 to 850,000, you might be a little daunted. One person facing precisely this nightmare is Ian Appleby, corporate IT security manager for NSW energy distributor, Endeavour Energy. He sums up his greatest challenge in three words: New emerging technologies.

    Written by CSO staff • 18 June 11 16:03
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    Open source identity: Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen

    Originally from Melbourne, Australia but now living in the US, Gavin Andresen is the technical lead of the Bitcoin virtual currency system. Started by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, Bitcoin is a digital currency system consisting of an open source client and P2P network. The aim of the Bitcoin project is a decentralised, secure peer-to-peer currency system that does not rely on banks or central transaction processing authorities. To generate “Bitcoins” people on the network use a cross-platform, open source client developed in C++. In addition to the open source aspect of Bitcoin, there is now an emerging market in services around the cryptocurrency such as exchange portals and virtual clearing houses. Previously, the Open Source Identity series has featured interviews with Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson, Linux’s Linus Torvalds, Jan Schneider of Horde, Mark Spencer of Asterisk fame, Spine CMS creator Hendrick van Belleghem, Free Telephony Project founder David Rowe, and PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering. This time we talk to Gavin Andresen about the new, decentralised approach to money – Bitcoin.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 21 March 11 14:29

  • Risk management: A CIO's strategic role

    Michael Cusumano is a professor of management and engineering systems at MIT's Sloan School of Management and author of Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World.

    Written by Kim S. Nash • 02 Feb. 11 15:04

  • Mobile benefits outweigh the risks: Westpac CTO

    The new paradigm of mobile banking carries with it inherent risks, but there’s no reason for consumers to be less confident about the security of their data if the right safeguards are in place, says the chief technology officer (CTO) of Westpac bank.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 28 Dec. 10 09:00

  • Avoid Your Business Being Collateral Damage in a Cyber War

    All around the world, governments declare they are gearing up for cyber war. I know, I know, to anyone who has been at this for any significant length of time, many of the news stories we are reading today could have, or should have, been written a decade ago, or more. The term "Cyber war" seems to be on everyone's lips again. (Cue the theme music for "Groundhog Day" - again!) In one way, it is hard to take it seriously anymore; in another way, it is incredible that so many governments sound like they are just getting started, again. Nevertheless, even though the chest-beating seems to be a redux, and much of the blustering rhetoric seems to be recycled, the reality on the virtual ground in cyber space is that the capabilities (the offensive ones, at least) have evolved over the last decade, and so have the opportunities. Furthermore, the appetite to use them seems to have grown apace.

    Written by Richard Power • 26 Aug. 10 02:34

  • World Cup security: Preparing for the unexpected

    The FIFA World Cup games kick off on June 11 in South Africa. One of the largest sporting events in the world, it features multiple games occurring across numerous cities, posing myriad logistical and communication challenges in an already volatile, high crime area.

    Written by Joan Goodchild • 10 June 10 05:00

  • Enterprise risk management: all systems go

    When Bill Badertscher arrived at Georgetown University three years ago, campuswide security was handled in several departments with little coordination among teams. It was time for a change. Badertscher is Georgetown's senior engineer for facility and safety control systems and leader of a new IT team that focuses on the same areas. The goal is to address enterprise risk management (ERM) by redefining it to include nontraditional systems. Understanding that security is mission-critical has led the University Safety and Information Services departments to work together in unprecedented ways.

    Written by Joan Goodchild • 03 June 10 03:39

  • Estonia readies for the next cyberattack

    More than anyone else, Jaak Aaviksoo has first-hand knowledge of what a cyberwar might feel like. In April 2007, Estonia's banking, media and government presence online was disrupted by several waves of distributed denial of service attacks that knocked services offline. The country is heavily wired -- 90 percent of all financial transactions are conducted over the Internet and 70 percent of the population files their tax returns electronically -- so the incident was widely felt by the country's 1.3 million citizens.

    Written by Robert McMillan • 08 April 10 06:49

  • SaaS, not shopping, is focus of Symantec's new CEO

    CIOs think of Symantec as a company that buys its way into new markets. Over the past decade the Cupertino, California, vendor has snatched up about 30 companies as it's evolved from an antivirus and tools seller to an aspiring enterprise infrastructure vendor.

    Written by Robert McMillan • 26 June 09 09:32

  • Five Ways To Survive a Data Breach Investigation

    Security experts say it all the time: If a company thinks it has suffered a data security breach, the key to getting at the truth unscathed is to have a response plan in place for what needs to be done and who needs to be in charge of certain tasks. And, as SANS Institute instructor Lenny Zeltser advised in CSOonline's recent How to Respond to an Unexpected IT Security Incident article, "ask lots and lots of questions" before making rash decisions.

    Written by Bill Brenner • 16 April 09 09:11

  • If Kaspersky were God...

    We recently got the opportunity to interview Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind Kaspersky Anti Virus. Here's what he had to say about the evolution of malware, the future of cybersecurity, the problems with the Internet, and more.

    Written by Aditya Nag • 31 Dec. 08 09:00

  • M&A expert to CIOs: Be careful what you ask for

    M&A industry veteran Paul Deninger, a vice chairman at Jefferies & Co., has made a living advising companies on mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and the like. But even he acknowledges that too much industry consolidation isn't a good thing for technology innovation. I spoke with Deninger this week about the state of the M&A market and what’s likely ahead.

    Written by Bob Brown • 15 Dec. 08 08:58

  • Why Cybercrime is Thriving

    A new Symantec report reveals just how large and sophisticated the online underground economy has grown.

    Written by Joan Goodchild • 27 Nov. 08 11:52

  • Dilip Sarangan on Physical Security M&A

    Dilip Sarangan tracks physical security companies for Frost & Sullivan. He expects the industry's "need to have" products to weather the economic storm well, with the big players (now including IBM and Cisco) looking for value-priced acquisitions.

    Written by Derek Slater • 20 Nov. 08 11:18

  • How IT Helped Catch the Jewellery Thief

    A jewellery store chain is having much better luck catching burglars in real time, thanks to a little help from the IT side of the house. Loss Prevention Manager Dennis Thomas explains how the company built its high-tech command center from scratch.

    Written by Bill Brenner • 13 Nov. 08 11:52

  • Cisco CSO says security is growing up

    John Stewart doesn't talk like your typical corporate executive. He said that his company, Cisco Systems, has been lucky when it comes to security and that his company's Self-Defending Network marketing push has painted "a big bull's-eye" on its products.

    Written by Robert McMillan • 07 Aug. 08 07:51

  • Cybercrime Convention will benefit Australia, says proponent

    The Convention on Cybercrime is the work of the Council of Europe and is aimed at facilitating international cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of computer crimes. Since the Convention came into being in 2001, the COE has been working to address the growing international concern over the threats posed by hacking and other computer-related crimes.

    Written by Howard Dahdah • 19 May 08 09:36
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