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Comment Keeping everything isn't really a practical policy, especially if there are no policies and tools in place to identify, locate and control sensitive information. New research suggests there are signs it is finally taking centre stage in many...
[28 Mar 2008]
Comment I do hope we - all of us - can identify key standards and factors for success in this heated debate. Is our embattled hero right to take a stand on the issue or should he meekly submit? The outsourcing and offshoring debate rages on.
[10 Mar 2008]
Comment Technical training is valid but it does not identify if someone can perform key job-related functions. Lying on CVs, exaggerated skills and inflated egos are the petty recruitment problems facing our embattled CIO, newly arrived at a largish company.
[11 Feb 2008]
Comment Sounds easy enough but it has been difficult to identify a credible alternative that provides the same application mix as our existing provider. Smaller firms tend to shy away from hosted applications because of worries about the risk to sensitive...
[16 Jan 2008]
Comment One way of doing that is to identify exactly where they are located, says Quocirca's Louella Fernandes. Bringing geographic borders to the internet in areas such as online gambling or digital rights management has particularly driven the need to...
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment These include looking for specific spam signatures, blocking certain IP address ranges from which spam is originating and using Bayesian and heuristic filters to identify spam. Attempts by governments and police to stop spam at its source have...
[10 Dec 2007]
Comment These traits are used to identify people by certain characteristics that are either physiological - such as faces, fingerprints, irises, veins and DNA - or behavioural - such as voices, signatures and keystrokes.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics
[23 Nov 2007]
Comment Good clients are hard to identify before you work with them. Suffice to say that as soon as you identify a client in this category you need to make a sharp exit from the project. It didn't take ex-CIO Mike Barrett long to learn it really pays to be...
[21 Nov 2007]
Comment How did you identify how to fill the gaps? Unilever CIO Neil Cameron is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry, and joined the company in 2003 from Diageo where he was also CIO. Andy McCue talked to him, at silicon.com's CIO Forum in London, about...
[17 Oct 2007]
Comment The trick is to identify the data required, ensure the technology is in place to collect it quickly and efficiently, ensure that the data can be verified and guarantee that the operational implications are conveyed simply and quickly to the senior...
[15 Oct 2007]
AS Profile As ID and access guru at the software giant, Cameron has driven the development of systems such as the Active Directory, which helps users identify fraudulent activity to combat spam and phishing. Kim Cameron is the only Microsoft name to appear on...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment That's where it starts to break down because many times companies identify themselves by some unique business processes or some unique way they do pricing or purchasing or manage their inventory. Big complicated and expensive enterprise resource...
[01 Oct 2007]
Comment CIOs need to get involved at the earliest possible stage of any merger, to help their organisation identify valuable technology and obstacles. The CIO can be particularly influential in helping to identify areas where the merger can solve existing...
[25 Sep 2007]
Comment If you cannot accurately identify the current state, it's not possible for you and the outsourcer to agree the scope of the contract, costs and service levels involved. A business impact analysis will also identify exactly what processes are...
[23 Jul 2007]
Comment Therefore companies must identify all areas of potential IT risk - from staff taking their laptops home to large amounts of data residing in third party data centres - and understand what risks are actually posed and how they can be managed or...
[06 Jul 2007]
Comment And many companies are failing to control and identify issues on their networks such as productivity of staff. Will Sturgeon sheds some light on how to make sure you're in control of nefarious network traffic.
[28 Mar 2007]
Comment But more likely is that companies will use traffic analysis to identify where the spit is coming from and block traffic coming from compromised servers. NEC has announced a modular tool called VoIP Seal that uses a combination of methods to...
[22 Mar 2007]
Comment The problem started when I went to identify myself through an existing account with the institution, which of course was necessary before I supplied my baby's birth certificate and so on. The other day I went to the high street for the first time...
[21 Mar 2007]
Comment The best way to understand the security or confidentiality implications of any information is to identify its owner. In today's knowledge economy, getting the right information at the right time can make the difference between success and failure.
[07 Mar 2007]
Comment In the olden days, an organisation could identify specific tasks which could be outsourced and shared with other companies, so gaining a degree of cost savings. One last time - outsourcing isn't all about cost savings.
[19 Jan 2007]
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