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24/06/2008

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

12/02/2008

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

28/01/2008

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

22/12/2007

The 2007 security hall of shame

2007 was a record year for security breaches, and 2008 is forecast to be worse.

06/11/2007

FIM: A shared foundation

Understanding federated identity management and how it enables single sign-on systems to interoperate is the key to providing a secure, user-friendly utility.

13/07/2007

Best practise

Awareness of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has risen exponentially in the last couple of years, with one in four UK organisations now implementing the best practise framework for IT service delivery in some shape or form.

12/07/2007

WEB 2.0

If in some strange parallel universe, Shakespeare was born an IT director, he would have good cause in musing, “to web 2.0 or not to web 2.0: that is the question”. But literary puns aside, while the latest internet technology trend may not be quite up to Hamlet’s dilemma, it certainly isn’t making life easy for CIOs.

05/07/2007

Security guards

Security executives from around the country converged in Boston this August to hear how their peers are tackling enterprise security and managing risk.

25/06/2007

Making a swift recovery

Buncefield – the site of this winter’s huge oil refinery fire near Hemel Hempstead – was, like all disasters, completely unexpected. But this is the nature of the world we live in, where global warming, international unease and good old human stupidity can swiftly wreak havoc on all plans, personal and organisational.

Evening all, we’re mobile

London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has 620 square miles of capital city to look after and this is done by 31,000 uniformed staff, 13,600 police staff, over 414 traffic wardens and around 2,000 police community support officers.

20/06/2007

Criminal intent

A shiver must have gone down the back of many a CIO when TK Maxx publicly admitted to a massive security breach of its computer system in January 2007. How fraudsters escaped with at least 45.7 million payment card details over a 16-month period, despite complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards, could prove to be an interesting story.

09/05/2007

Crisis talks

Management apathy has traditionally been the biggest inhibitor to implementing effective business continuity management (BCM) procedures. Too many organisations have tended to adopt a head-in-the-sand, it-won’t-happen-to-me approach or are put off by the amount of money that they could have to spend. As a result, they always promise themselves to think about it later. But awareness of the need to ensure the survival of the business in case of a disaster has increased in recent years in the wake of a spate of regional catastrophes.

07/05/2007

It’s been an education

One of the biggest education infrastructure projects happening at the moment in the UK is the £90 million creation of a new ‘shopping mall’ style campus in Doncaster in South Yorkshire. CIO UK took a quick look at this investment and how IT underpins the infrastructure back in October; now the college has had its doors open for a term it seemed a good time to see how things are faring.

15/01/2007

NHS confidential

Four-fifths of all GPs believe patients’ confidentiality is at risk with the planned NHS Spine but the DoH is standing firm

19/12/2006

Crisis call

There is a growing controversy of data theft in the Indian call centre industry and CIOs who outsource there may find themselves caught up in it.

12/12/2006

The global state of IT security

The largest ranging survey of its kind provides a complex picture of the security challenges facing CIOs today

08/12/2006

The rules of the game

Love them or loathe them, legal regulations cannot be ignored.

29/11/2006

Security guards

CIOs discuss the challenges of keeping their companies secure against ever increasing threats.

17/11/2006

The future is bright

A wide ranging Harvey Nash survey provides a positive snapshot of where CIOs are today and where the future is leading them.

12/09/2006

Keep smarts

Companies lose critical knowledge all the time. And, in many cases, it is knowledge they never really realised they had.

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