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Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Evidence-based risk management is a key principle of real-time data systems. They have only to ensure their risk assessment systems are sophisticated enough to provide real-time feedback on potential defaults. [03 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment So let's just do a broad-brush comparison based on reported death rates and see what the risk really looks like. People are the number one risk factor. Resources are deployed in inverse proportion to actual risk. [28 May 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment The sophistication, understanding and acceptance of risk management tools has advanced considerably since the fall of Barings but banks are still much more disconnected than people think. Banking systems are still painfully vulnerable to the... [15 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment David Cole, academy team leader and senior consultant at risk management consultancy DNV IT Global Services, thinks he has the answer. Unfortunately, governance expert Michael Parent says that those senior managers are asleep at the tiller in many... [28 Mar 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment Organisations are using identity management systems to cut the risk of data security breaches. Organisations need to ensure such devices are included in the identity management systems they put in place - for example, by requiring employees use a... [18 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment The statistics may show the risk of crime is decreasing in some areas because of new technical measures and policies. Identity theft and sloppy data management are a significant and steadily growing problem. [27 Feb 2008]
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment Smaller firms tend to shy away from hosted applications because of worries about the risk to sensitive data. This has worked very well for us, not just in terms of low hassle and low-risk computing but also because we have access to enterprise... [16 Jan 2008]
Whose data is it anyway?
Comment Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological Change makes sober reading in the light of recent events but it also offers a series of sensible recommendations spanning systems design, risk analysis, regulation, auditing and... [17 Dec 2007]
How to stop "runaway" ERP projects
Comment He claims his company has eliminated much of this implementation risk by creating templates for specific vertical industries on a ratio of $1 of implementation cost to $1 of software - even offering fixed pricing for some projects. [01 Oct 2007]
Tech can make or break a merger
Comment There is a danger that this lack of operational engagement creates blind spots that leave a CIO at risk of becoming a victim, rather than the hero of the hour. There is a real risk of damage to customer relationships for both companies, especially... [25 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment A risk is that managers can assume they are special and think they can make clever judgements. Muddled management The challenge to managers is that most of their work can be replaced by workflow systems and most are too selfish to entertain. [23 Aug 2007]
Security - no longer just about hackers
Comment Back in the mid-1990's, the UK government cottoned on to the fact that good security is more about risk management than risk avoidance - a concept that has fed into such standards initiatives as ISO 17799. [31 Jul 2007]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment Technology isn't the starting point, explains John Pironti, a member of the education board for the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and chief risk strategist at IT services firm Getronics. [02 Jul 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Why is customer service so hard?
Comment Such improvements are often driven by political or media pressures - one single accident might mean money spent on a problem that is really a very low risk. However, lessons are being learnt and products developed that allow organisations to... [17 Nov 2006]
Profile: CIO from the business
Comment Many companies would have said 'you are a CIO so you are a risk to move into an operating job like this'. Because it was the trend at the time in the early 1990s, I ended up working a lot in information systems," she says. [18 Oct 2006]
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