CIO Compliance

Socitm spells out data handling standards

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:41:00 GMT

Information Commissioner backs new approach

Socitm, the public sector IT directors’ organisation and the Local Government Association have jointly produced new guidelines for data handling in local councils.

Servers to get Energy Star rating

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:28:00 GMT

EPA stickers on boxes by February as US takes a green lead.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the third draft of its Energy Star specification for servers and expects the final spec to be ready for use in February.

Information Agenda is way forward says IBM

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:59:00 GMT

Forget the economic crisis, create an agenda for information management

CIOs and IT professionals should be looking to create an "Information Agenda" says IBM. And the company is devoting a lot of attention to the subject at its Information on Demand conference where delegates will be bombarded by a rash of product and services announcements and a lot of discussion about how to create an "Information Agenda."

EU companies excluding open source vendors

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:55:00 GMT

Tenders continue to name Microsoft as preferred supplier

Despite European Commission draft guidelines urging government departments to choose software based on open standards, some tenders are still excluding open software.

Fast Search charged with fraud in Norway

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:07:00 GMT

Alleged improper reporting of revenue at latest Microsoft acquisition

Norwegian police have charged Fast Search & Transfer, an enterprise search company owned by Microsoft, with accounting fraud.

Ministry of Defence in new data loss scandal

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:08:00 GMT

Hard drive found missing during emergency audit by EDS

The Ministry of Defence and EDS are investigating the loss of a portable hard drive containing personal details of 100,000 military personnel and up to 600,000 potential recruits.

CIOs demand clarity on green technology

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:25:00 GMT

Shared standards, less software bloat and sweated assets

Users put vendors on the spot in a Green IT panel debate in London, calling for less bloated software, clearer standards and consistent messages.

NGD builds UK's first data fortress

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:54:00 GMT

Welsh centre goes rack to the future.

An ambitious project is under way in Wales to build one of the most advanced and secure data centres in Europe.

Official investigation holds up Google, Yahoo ad deal

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:12:00 GMT

Department of Justice talks prompt 'brief' delay

Google and Yahoo will further delay their controversial search-advertising deal in the face of an ongoing investigation by the US Department of Justice.

Gaping security hole found in RFID chips

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT

More question marks over e-passport security.

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.

Virgin Media slammed by Data Protection Commissioner

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:47:00 GMT

Firm ordered to encrypt all portable devices

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.

IT directors to challenge vendors' green claims

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:36:00 GMT

Global Action Plan charity tries to cut through the hype

IT suppliers are going to be put on the spot at a special event organised by the green charity Global Action Plan .

CIO News View: The ID card honeypot

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:14:00 GMT

If you build it, crackers will come

In 1671, a soldier dressed as a priest attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. In 1963, masked men including Ronnie Biggs ambushed a train in bucolic Buckinghamshire to steal 120 mail bags containing used notes -- the scam became known as the Great Train Robbery. In 1983, 6800 gold bars went missing from a lock-up in Heathrow in what became known as the Brinks Mat robbery, and in the same year, the great racehorse Shergar went missing. In 2001, a police sting caught villains red-handed (as they say in tabloids) in an attempt to steal £200m worth of diamonds from the Millennium Dome.

Jobs and Jagger meet for EU online talks

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:38:00 GMT

EU regulators warn big business to obey rules of common market

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Rolling Stone (and trained accountant) Mick Jagger were in Brussels yesterday, to hear EU competition: commissioner Neelie Kroes warn that the music industry and technology firms must do better in Europe.

Police database link-up gets EU backing

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:13:00 GMT

But concerns remain over citizens' privacy

National governments and the European Commission want to build ECRIS (European Criminal Records Information System), an encrypted network linking national criminal justice systems, allowing them to exchange information such as current and past criminal records about individuals.

Up to now this has proved cumbersome and frequently a judge in one country may not...

CIO News View: Banking chaos likely to feed BI, governance tools

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:12:00 GMT

New Depression could be joy for some IT vendors

It’s not quite 1929 and Wall Street isn’t yet filled with brokers leaping from windows but, from Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers to HBOS and Northern Rock via Merrill Lynch, these are black days for the erstwhile Masters of the Universe. Technology will undoubtedly get a share of the blame: what happened to all those theories of how you made your difference through business at the speed of thought , by taking out manual inputs and automating around pre-defined rules? Well, rubbish in, rubbish out – and it has always been thus.

EU wants new IT trade agreement

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:55:00 GMT

Takes steps to avoid trade war

The European Commission has called for a broad discussion among all producer countries about what goods should and should not be slapped with customs duties, as well as talks on other barriers to trade, commonly called non-tariff barriers.

EC says Google must do more to safeguard privacy

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:44:00 GMT

Google's data retention move receives broad backing

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Painting the Co-op IT green

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

A new point-of-sale system lets devices sleep at night, saving money and energy at The Co-operative Group

The clamour for green IT raised by the spiralling cost of energy, corporate social responsibility mandates and regulations around power consumption and electronic waste disposal is beginning to have an impact on IT infrastructures in ways that aren’t just confined to the datacentre.

Managing career-threatening risks

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Staying out of trouble

When BA completes its inevitable blame-storming meeting over the recent Heathrow fiasco, there will inevitably be some casualties. How many human sacrifices will be offered to the Gods of the Media? Six would be too many, and four not enough. But who will be the Terminal Five, the men and women who pay for the failed systems with their careers?

Software lobby groups join forces

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:31:00 GMT

FAST and IiS become single entity to improve licence compliance

The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) and Investors in Software (IiS) have joined forces in a bid to provide more clarity on licence compliance and software asset management to the end user community.

Forrester: Poor database archiving is compliance risk

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:24:00 GMT

Legal summons could demand instant information retrieval

Businesses could fall foul of regulation because of their failure to optimise database archiving and make information readily accessible, Forrester has warned.

BBC apologises for theft of kids' data

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:31:00 GMT

Details on 250 children kept on memory stick

The BBC has issued an apology after it lost personal details of hundreds of children.

Child data lost by BBC production firm

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:24:00 GMT

BBC completes review of security at Objective Productions

An independent production company working for the BBC has lost a laptop and a memory stick containing the details of children.

The second age of e-discovery

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Good governance -- and the law -- mandate that companies invest in e-discovery solutions for tracking down messages and files in the event of a probe

E-discovery is a relatively new concept that describes the process by which information is recovered from corporate networks, usually to answer the demands of regulators or the law. It is a subject close to the hearts of CEOs everywhere, given the stringent penalties and resulting brand damage that have been applied to companies unable to provide information on demand.