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RSS failOutsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News Outsourcing deals typically promise to deliver cost savings and increased efficiency - but all too often the promises fail to match the reality. At the National Outsourcing Association's Sourcing Summit last week, two... [24 Nov 2009]
Wireless Devices in Call Centers - Data Theft and Standards/Legal Compliance Risks
White Paper This paper identifies the potential standards and legal violations, as well as the security challenges, of companies that fail to provide surveillance of cellular phones and 802.11 wireless devices in call centers. [13 Nov 2009]
Audit Readiness for PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard Compliance
White Paper Retailers that fail Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audits can be fined up to $500,000. Additional penalties can range from increased audit requirements to retraction of credit card processing... [13 Nov 2009]
Wireless Devices on Trading Floors - Regulatory Compliance Risks
White Paper This paper identifies the potential regulatory violations and security challenges of firms that fail to provide surveillance of cellular phones and 802.11 wireless devices on trading floors. In addition to outlining... [12 Nov 2009]
Server Virtualization: A Step Toward Cost Efficiency and Business Agility
White Paper But if, in the midst of a crisis, executives fail to identify areas to improve business performance, lower their organization's cost structure and increase efficiencies, these leaders are likely to miss the chance to... [12 Nov 2009]
Fundamental Requirements of SIEM
White Paper Many SIEMs fail to meet these basic expectations because both functions require better system performance than what is commonly available. Discussions of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) often focus on... [12 Nov 2009]
Analysis of Performance and Quality Parameters for Service Level Agreement in Long Distance Calls Service
White Paper With creating more competitive market, the performance quality of services will increment and the customers can fine service providers if they fail to deliver as promised. SLA (Service level agreement) is a formal... [12 Nov 2009]
A Dynamic Technique for Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Web Applications
White Paper The emerging programming languages, which allow unexperienced users to quickly develop applications, still fail to introduce mechanisms for preventing the aforementioned attacks. Web application security and privacy... [11 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the redundancy of social networks; open source advocates... [11 Nov 2009]
Business Alignment - Working With Requirements
White Paper Most IT projects fail. An insufficient understanding of the requirements that are driving the project causes most of these failures. Lack of understanding can have many causes - lack of communication with the user... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Another fail. Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was among the first computers to sport a mouse - albeit a boxy and clunky one. And while the Lisa tanked, most people remember the mouse as a key part of the Macs that... [03 Nov 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Unlike workers in the US, employees in the UK do have an expectation of privacy in the workplace, and if you fail to follow best practice you could find your organisation on the wrong side of the law: under Article 8 of... [22 Oct 2009]
Accurately Measuring Denial of Service in Simulation and Testbed Experiments
White Paper These metrics are not versatile because they fail to monitor all traffic parameters that signal service degradation. They are not quantitative because they fail to specify exact ranges of parameter... [02 Oct 2009]
Digital Signatures for Contract Management
White Paper As organizations move to implement custom and off-the-shelf contract management applications, many of these systems fail to provide appropriate electronic approval and signing features. This creates a major gap in the... [02 Oct 2009]
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
White Paper Unfortunately, the people who specify systems often fail to recognize these factors, which leads to increased costs to the owner because operational efficiencies are not correctly considered. As energy resources become... [01 Oct 2009]
