richard steel in news
Businesses tackle laptop theft data security risks
News Richard Steel, CIO, London Borough of Newham Richard Rundle, IT director, BAA Half of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they are using or planning to use hard disk encryption to protect corporate data on laptops, while the other... [15 May 2007]
CIO Jury: Is VoIP secure enough for business?
News Richard Steel, CIO at the London Borough of Newham - which is now rolling out wireless VoIP - said: "It's as secure as any other voice technology. Richard Steel, CIO, London Borough of Newham Voice over IP is secure and reliable enough for... [16 Mar 2007]
CIO Jury: Complexity is the enemy
News But Richard Steel, CIO at the London Borough of Newham, said the challenge is less about complexity and more about the increased scope and pace of change - especially in the public sector. Richard Steel, CIO, London Borough of Newham [14 Feb 2007]
CIO Jury: 'Cynical' licence audits under fire
News Richard Steel, CIO at the London Borough of Newham, said: "It's their judgement call. Richard Steel, CIO, London Borough of Newham Corporate IT users have accused technology suppliers of cynically using software licence auditing as a tool to... [12 Jan 2007]
CIO Jury: Graduates lack basic skills
News Richard Steel, CIO at the London Borough of Newham, said: "We tend to develop relationships with undergraduates early, through work experience programmes, or similar, which has great benefits all round. [04 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: CIO quotes of the year
News Richard Steel, chief information officer, the Borough of Newham, speaking at London's IP'06 event "I've always been grateful for the HR department because if ever there's been anybody the business liked less it was HR. [21 Dec 2006]
CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead
News Richard Steel, the head of ICT at the London Borough of Newham which famously threatened to move to Linux before sticking with Microsoft, said there will always be challengers to the dominant provider. [08 Nov 2006]
Open source is a "red herring", says Newham CIO
News Richard Steel, chief information officer at the Borough of Newham, made the comments to a large audience of senior IT professionals at London's IP'06 event on Wednesday. Steel told delegates: "Open source is a bit of a red herring. [20 Oct 2006]
CIO Jury: Mobile device as security risk
News Richard Steel, head of ICT at the London Borough of Newham, said: "Technologies like BitLocker [the drive encryption feature in Microsoft's forthcoming Vista release] are key as we increasingly deploy mobile devices for sensitive business... [02 Oct 2006]
CIO Jury: Keeping IT cool in the heatwave
News Richard Steel, head of ICT at the London Borough of Newham, said: "Despite the fact that most of Newham Council's offices lack air conditioning, no increase in the numbers of workstation fault calls has been discernible, illustrating, I suppose... [19 Jul 2006]
CIO Jury: Adapt or die, IT departments warned
News Richard Steel, head of ICT at the London Borough of Newham, said it is already happening at his local authority. Richard Steel, head of ICT, London Borough of Newham The role of the IT department will dramatically change over the next five years... [10 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Come clean on security breaches, organisations urged
News Public sector bodies should also be forced to disclose the details of any security breach, according to Richard Steel, head of ICT at the London Borough of Newham. Richard Steel, head of ICT, London Borough of Newham [05 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Employees are biggest security headache
News Richard Steel, head of ICT, London Borough of Newham, said unwitting security breaches such as writing down passwords, not logging out of unattended PCs and downloading software are the greatest threat. [28 Apr 2006]
CIO Jury: Has Blair been good for IT?
News In the public sector Richard Steel, head of ICT at the London Borough of Newham, said there have been only minimal benefits as a result of government policy. Richard Steel, head of ICT, London Borough of Newham [23 Mar 2006]
CIO Jury: IT bosses ban Google Desktop over security fears
News Richard Steel, head of ICT at Newham, said: "This is because Newham data will be copied onto Google servers and kept there indefinitely. Richard Steel, head of ICT, London Borough of Newham UK IT bosses are already taking measures to ban employees... [02 Mar 2006]
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