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TECHNOLOGY > Security
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Managing career-threatening risks
Staying out of trouble
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Watch worker activity to predict software demands
CIOs need to monitor the behaviour of employees to predict software requirements
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The staff, the thief, the device and its data
The spate of recent data loss scandals has made mobile data security a hot topic, but the right tools and best-practice policy can mitigate the risk
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In-depth investigation
Computer forensics has helped bust scams across the country – but could this re-emerging discipline help your organisation? Ambrose McNevin takes a look at the evidence
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Former Brigadier moves to Gartner
Former Brigadier Michael Lithgow may have left the army behind, but his 30-year stint at the MoD stands him in good stead in his new business battle. Sarah Aryanpur reports
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BCS is coming to the rescue of the industry’s precarious reputation
Up to scratch
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The 2007 security hall of shame
2007 was a record year for security breaches, and 2008 is forecast to be worse.
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A catalyst for IT-business chemistry
How one CIO is aligning IT with business needs from France to China to Brazil
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The benefits of free software
CIOs have steered well clear of free tools up until now but there’s no reason why they can’t be used for specific projects
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The promise of good governance
IT governance is not just about hitting compliance targets, it is a way for organisations to achieve enhanced value and performance from expensive technology assets
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Latest Concern Articles
People Leadership > Forging a Business Partner
CIOs reshape their IT culture to create an organization capable of partnering strategically with the rest of the business
Infrastructure Refresh > Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud
Sumner Lemon
Business Alignment > The future state of the CRM market
SaaS payment will push it to the fore of CRM adoption in current market
Managing Budgets > Business intelligence oils the wheels of oil sector profit
BI tools are essential the multiple facets of the oil industry and its recent profits
Security > Know thy customer
Emerging markets are pioneering BI usage in traditional sectors like the oil industry
Managing Customers > Provident Financial IT director Penny Jones on climbing obstacles
Provident Financial IT director Penny Jones has a wealth of experience in business technology, but worries over the place of women, young recruits and the effects of outsourcing
Compliance > Essential reading, books every CIO should have
Fact and fiction mesh for success
Resource Management > Virgin Rail, platforms for IT change
The rail industry never stands still, and Virgin Rail’s IT chief Francis Jellings knows that goes for the IT infrastructure as much as the rolling stock
Managing Change > Google: We are deadly serious about the enterprise
Search giant marks 10 years with renewed commitment to IT directors
Board Politics > Cracking IT vendor relations
It’s not easy to bend your supplier to your own will to get the products you need, but there are ways of making them talk
Latest News
Online banking fraud losses hit £21.4m
Losses from online banking fraud have hit a record £21.4m in the first half of 2008 - an increase of 185 per cent on the previous year says APACS.
Gaping security hole found in RFID chips
Data on radio chips can be cloned and modified without detection, according to a security researcher, raising question marks over the use of so-called e-passports that use RFID chips.
UK government coughs up for new e-crime unit
The UK government has finally committed funding to a specialist national e-crime unit, a year after a proposal was submitted by the Metropolitan Police.
Virgin Media slammed by Data Protection Commissioner
Virgin Media, which in June lost an unencrypted CD containing the bank details of 3,000 customers, has been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act.
CIO News View: The ID card honeypot
If you build it, crackers will come
Articles In Other Technology Areas
Databases > Richard Sykes: It’s the humans, stupid!
Technology doesn’t just develop itself, and talent management skills are vital when it comes to innovative projects
Business Applications > Gavin Michael: the Lloyds TSB Global villager
Commuting between Australia and the UK is just another challenge for Gavin Michael, the CIO of retail banking at Lloyds TSB
Internet/eCommerce > Why CIOs think developers are clueless
What do CIOs and IT directors want from their developers? A little bit of understanding and sympathy for the aims of the organisation that employs them, according to research carried out by CIO.com
Infrastructure > Five best practices for implementing SaaS CRM
Forrester discover the path to CRM satisifaction
Mobile IT > Can Web 2.0 save BI?
Business Intelligence 2.0, a world in which one of BI's original big promises is finally being met.
Communications > Groupe Danone North America CIO Jeff Hutchinson on videoconferencing
Jeff Hutchinson, North America CIO at food product giant Groupe Danone, explains how the firm’s innovation team develops solutions like videoconferencing
Outsourcing > Google eyes the enterprise market
The search giant is showing signs of making progress in the enterprise as it targets Microsoft’s cash cows of Office and Exchange
SOA > Andy Hayler: The innovation game
Identifying five recent enterprise software innovations is almost as difficult as naming five famous Belgians, says Andy Hayler
