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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment I mean it's core - we were looking at systems - but actually my role was very much around facilitating conversations and ensuring that the right people were speaking together and setting the governance framework in place," she explains.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment I think a big problem is password expiry - the effect of these policies is, in my experience, equivalent to ensuring people use the minimum complexity passwords that will be accepted by the system. Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment This can apply across business lines or a market group, ensuring that all exceptions are monitored and reported correctly, allowing operations management to push back information to the middle or front office if any controls are breached.

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects

Comment CIOs need to be more focused on ensuring the message is not lost in the chaos of a specific deadline that draws everyone's attention away from IT's ongoing value. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the...

Tags: testing, measuring value, failure, projects

[14 Apr 2008]

What governance can really mean to business

Comment By ensuring that we know what we're supposed to be doing in the first place. Then, by ensuring that we have the right level of control over what we do as a business, and most importantly, what we do business with.

Tags: risk, data management, compliance, governance

[28 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Identity crisis

Comment My legal department is constantly ensuring confidentiality and privacy are standard within any contract. So why as a consumer does he blithely share his own personal details at the drop of a hat? Today is a normal day.

Tags: identity, security, data theft, ecommerce

[25 Feb 2008]

How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day

Comment Partners in Learning can make use of another Microsoft initiative, Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher, where PCs are recycled from other areas, ensuring that data is erased and that the underlying Windows licence is validated before donating them to...

Tags: education, skills, microsoft, third world

[07 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08

Round-Up It also transpired this week that the government department responsible for ensuring standards in the UK's courts is investigating the loss of four CDs containing personal details which went Awol in the post.

Tags: laptop, mod, air, enter

[25 Jan 2008]

What price compliance?

Comment Many of the technology solutions available for helping companies to achieve regulatory compliance include templates or model policies relating to the requirements of the most common pieces of legislation and these can be used to aid companies in...

Tags: compliance, management, sarbanes-oxley, regulation

[07 Jan 2008]

Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers

Leader It appears that the economic doom and gloom of the past few months was forgotten, for a while at least, with retailers such as Marks & Spencer launching their latest sales on midnight Christmas Day, ensuring consumers would not stop shopping even...

Tags: christmas, retail, online, goods

[02 Jan 2008]

How to baseline power consumption

Comment Over the years much has been written about managing computing assets and ensuring an IT department knows what is connected to the network. If you want to cut the amount of power your IT systems use, you first need to know current consumption.

Tags: green, energy, power, cross

[14 Dec 2007]

Where is outsourcing heading?

Comment Greater open standards will emerge, ensuring that suppliers know how each component fits in and their delivery specifications. Outsourcing is in a state of flux. Tony Virdi says the new industrialised model that will emerge will offer plenty of...

Tags: outsourcing, software, offshoring, customer service

[05 Dec 2007]

Why must IT go green?

Comment How much of this can be saved by turning PCs off at night and ensuring devices are not left in standby when not in use? Green IT is not about compliance or coercion. It is about efficiency, says Stewart Baines.

Tags: green, management, data centres, efficiency

[03 Dec 2007]

The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

Comment One of the biggest challenges, not only for eSure but the rest of the insurance industry right now, is the aggregator and price comparison sites and ensuring the company can respond in real-time to requests for quotes on the web.

Tags: mccue interview, mark foulsham, esure, style

[27 Nov 2007]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Comment Fingerprint or iris recognition is being used at some organisations to enable employees to log on to the network, thus ensuring only authorised employees can access certain parts of the network. With the furore over 25 million missing child benefit...

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 2007]

Geelen and Pauwels

AS Profile Because of that success, Geelen and Pauwels are still ensuring that sat-nav sits high on the IT agenda. Pieter Geelen and Peter-Frans Pauwels started out by founding Palmtop, a company that developed applications for the first generation of...

[12 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...

Comment You want it running in the background, like Anti-virus software, not slowing you down, and ensuring you can live and work safely. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?

[04 Oct 2007]

Tech can make or break a merger

Comment The CIO can be particularly influential in helping to identify areas where the merger can solve existing problems, spotting new IT-enabled opportunities, ensuring hand-over problems are solved quickly, and using the merger to simplify processes...

Tags: merger, cios, m&a

[25 Sep 2007]

Escape the data management minefield

Comment There is no denying that ensuring data security in a public sector organisation is a nightmarish task. The public sector's data management is looking increasingly like Swiss cheese - full of holes. Paul Bentham explains how this is not just about...

[13 Sep 2007]

Who pays your broadband bill?

Comment This begs the question - who then pays for the home broadband and who is responsible for ensuring it meets the company's needs? As more people work from home, more employers are paying for home broadband service.

Tags: security policy, mobile phones, laptops, broadband

[21 Aug 2007]

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