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Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment For a full summary of the consultancy's activities, see www.quocirca.com. But next-generation IPsec VPNs are changing all that, says Fran Howarth. Over the past 40 years or so, the way IT has been delivered to end users has changed dramatically. [25 Jul 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment For more information on The Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group's activities, events and how businesses can get involved please visit www.princes-trust.org.uk/technology or contact Jamie Webb on 020 7543 1317 or at jamie.webb@princes-trust... [09 Jul 2008]
Pascal Emile
CIO Profile He was also instrumental in rationalising the bank's market risk infrastructure, as well as promoting a common technology platform supporting derivatives' products trading activities. Pascal Emile was appointed global CIO for investment bank... [11 Jun 2008]
Ben Wishart
CIO Profile Wishart, who has a degree in geological sciences and a PGCE teaching qualification actually started out as an outdoor activities instructor and spent five years running white-water rafting operations in Kathmandu and outdoor centres in Wales. [11 Jun 2008]
David Lister
CIO Profile He says: "I get bored with business-as-usual activities. The archetypal 'paratrooper' CIO David Lister has once again donned his transformational combat fatigues for a new role at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile As a group executive director as well as CIO, Ian Cohen is a member of the Associated Newspapers commercial board and is responsible for all technology, operations and production activities that support the group's print and online businesses. [11 Jun 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment They can be used for a wide variety of activities and also up near the top will be phishing. The cyber division is one of the faster growing operational departments within the FBI. The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past... [15 Apr 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment But they often pay a high price for decentralising development: splintered development activities that make it difficult for functions or divisions to connect systems and share information, and massive duplications of effort and thus high IT costs. [09 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up Philip Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, said: "It is likely that virtual world activities are somewhat more 'policeable' and the law somewhat more maintainable within virtual worlds. [04 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Data encryption also poses a problem for the legitimate activities of the police and other law enforcement agencies. But organisations would be wrong to pin all their hopes on it, warns lawyer Stewart James. [27 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Certainly, ISPs should discourage illegal activities - and indeed should face financial penalties or other sanctions for letting piracy occur. Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal downloading doesn't stop. [22 Feb 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment In the past five years there has been growing recognition across the global financial services markets that they should rid themselves of non-core activities. Outsourcing these functions and responsibilities to a global technology specialist means... [04 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Only a few weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to change the way the Beacon advertising system worked after receiving 50,000 complaints from users over releasing information about their internet activities without permission. [29 Jan 2008]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment Back-office processing activities are not a priority in the thoughts of a bank's business executives. For banks looking at replacing the systems that are constricting their business activities, achieving real-time business intelligence could well... [02 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment We run the whole of the DVLA's infrastructure and their transformation activities. Also part of our proposition is considering the social and economic activities you can now bring to bear and how the council provides a better environment. [05 Dec 2007]
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