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The Naked CIO: Poisoned BlackBerrys
Comment As CIOs, we must act to protect our organisations and our employees from what is becoming an epidemic. But the trouble is one day the addicts might just fight back, says the Naked CIO. Although he's meant to be on holiday, Gordon Brown admits his... [28 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?
Comment The more difficult manoeuvre is to act on this knowledge and become great not in terms of what you think but in what you do. These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for avoiding a rapid return to earth, says the Naked CIO. [30 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather runs the information... [11 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment He was prosecuted and fined under provisions in the Telecommunications Act for comments made about a police officer's family. Not so, says lawyer Duncan Calow. Blogs, social networks and other user-generated content blur the line between reader and... [05 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment Information is another big part of Beaton's role at the Met and she has responsibility for managing the Met's work with the Information Commissioner, the Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection Act and information security. [02 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment NHS cleans up keyboard act This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should they be slapped with an ASBO? Also, dirty NHS keyboards get an airing, benefit cheats hunted out with lie detectors and the T5 "tech not to blame" fiasco... [15 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy
Comment But if you act on the principle of creating process without bureaucracy then this will have a huge positive impact on your ability to shape effective processes that businesses and departments can buy into. [12 May 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment The much-vaunted Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed by the US Congress in 2002 was meant to have a far-reaching effect on Western multinationals, at considerable cost and effort. The act attempted to prevent a rerun of financial scandals such as Enron and... [15 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Failing to act with reasonable care can include anything from disclosing a PIN, not disposing of bank statements properly, accessing bank websites via unauthorised links in emails, or not keeping firewall or spyware protection up to date. [15 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment While this US act covers companies listed in that country, it can also affect UK firms that are subsidiaries or partners of US firms. And Phil Huggins, CTO of security consultancy IRM, thinks the DPA will become more of an issue as the 2006... [08 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty
Comment Does the act of considering an offshoring contract make me a disloyal employer? Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer counted for something. What most readers found provocative in my column on recruitment problems was the idea that... [31 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment Our entire history of growth and success has been founded on a high-wire act that teeters between misconception and deception. Written at home on a wet evening and dispatched to silicon.com via personal LAN. [31 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment The obligation to protect all information imposed by the Companies Act does at least ensure common measures such as encryption can be applied and simplifies the process of developing an information security policy. [27 Mar 2008]
Just whose legislation rules the internet?
Comment Given these facts, and pursuant with section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, Blogger does not remove allegedly defamatory, libellous or slanderous material from Blogger.com or Blogspot.com. When he tried to stop them he discovered some... [05 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment So how big does the problem have to become before governments act, asks Simon Moores. The threat of terrorism is soaking up funds badly needed to combat cyber crime. Is it safe? The famous line from the film Marathon Man is a singularly appropriate... [27 Feb 2008]
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