risk and management in news
Credit crunch pushes techie wages to five-year low
News ATSCo and iProfile.org believe that wholesale layoffs among contractors are unlikely and that financial services companies will be pressed to route investment into areas of technology that can make their... [06 Oct 2008]
Barclays' encryption locks down £500bn
News Horne added that by relying instead on a hotchpotch of incompatible encryption products businesses are exposing themselves to a greater risk of data breaches or information being rendered inaccessible through mismanaged... [30 Sep 2008]
CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
News Partly because the internet is such a potential security risk, we would take our steer off of CESG [the Information Assurance arm of the Government Communications HQ] about its suitability for use in secure government... [29 Sep 2008]
Staff web 2.0 skills can boost work productivity
News The Butler Group report adds that businesses risk losing out if they fail to formalise the use of web 2.0 within the organisation. Uploading/downloading can be a security risk. Richard Edwards,... [24 Sep 2008]
Tech leaders honoured at glittering CNET Awards
News The IT Team of the Year, was won by investment bank Credit Suisse for taking just six months to create the Global Equities Aggregated Risk System for managing cross-entity risk... [24 Sep 2008]
Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands
News Interbrand calculated the value of the brands by taking into account revenue forecasts, market research and brand risk analysis - including factors such as customer loyalty. For the inside track on... [19 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News We are calling for greater public debate and for the government to consider legislation that would require organisations that suffer information security breaches to alert their customers if there is a chance the breach... [10 Sep 2008]
Fibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News In a speech to the European Parliament this week, Viviane Reding, the EC's telecoms commissioner, said: "I applaud the Parliament's moves to encourage infrastructure competition on these 'next generation access' networks by proactively... [04 Sep 2008]
BMC tools simplify virtualisation
News The company said the tools can "reduce the latency, cost and risk associated with change management by as much as 75 percent". BMC Software, the service and... [04 Sep 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News While the growth of LBS is good news for mobile carriers, Bonte warned there is also a risk they could become mere bandwidth providers as independent LBS app and software providers step in with offerings. [17 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! rejects latest Microsoft deal
News s existing business plus its recently signed commercial agreement with Google has superior financial value and less complexity and risk than the Microsoft/Icahn proposal…The major... [14 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News And they need a time horizon that gives them a degree of assurance for a realistic period in the future; that they know for example that the regulator will not suddenly change the rules of the game to reduce the returns... [04 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Most company PCs have to work with a local application load, which affects both the management and hardware requirements of the devices. He said: "The virtual-machine model allows you to maintain a... [30 Jun 2008]
CIOs not taking security breaches seriously
News Erol Mustafa, head of IT internal audit services at Ernst & Young, said senior executives must recognise the importance of data privacy and should address it as part of their overall risk... [27 Jun 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The constant need to bring information together from these systems increases the security risk. Large amounts of data are transferred around HMRC without regard to risk and security.... [26 Jun 2008]
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