TECHNOLOGY > Security > OPINIONS

01/11/2007

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


03/05/2007

Flirting with disaster

Whenever I say, “this could be a disaster,” it means I am going to cook a new, complicated recipe, I have decided to attempt self-tattooing or I am reading anything about Iraq. Whenever companies say, “this could be a disaster,” it means either that they are engaged in the prudent activity of contingency planning for unforeseen events or they have received my CV.


19/12/2006

Email confidential

The bottom of emails promise dire consequences for those rash enough to break their confidentiality.


08/12/2006

Tightrope walking

IT managers agonise about how to erect ever stronger barriers to their company’s information resources.


11/09/2006

Food with a lot of thought

Gerhard Eygelaar, director of IT for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) of food services company Compass Group sees his role as bringing IT governance to the heart of the organisation.


11/09/2006

Just enough for the City

Sometimes it seems the financial services industry operates on a completely different plane to everything else – expanding IT while elsewhere it’s contracting, paying bonuses when staff numbers are being slashed everywhere else and navel gazing when the real world is out chasing customers.


11/09/2006

The danger within

Security is always a good thing but there can be no protection from simple error and stainless steel rats, writes Gary Flood


15/03/2006

Not a cause for concern

Is it time to stop worrying about compliance?


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