If CIOs are going to make the most of opportunities for using IT to fuel business transformations and become engaged in experimentation with software as a service, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and the full realm of other new and emerging technologies, then information security must become an embedded and fundamental component of planning.
Chief information officers need to take a leading role in setting up formal schemes to stop them over-complicating information classification to comply with security regulations, according to a report from the Information Security Forum (ISF).
The private sector needs to take data privacy more seriously if it is to stop the Information Commissioner's Office getting the power to audit their information security systems without warning, says James Alexander, technology security partner at Deloitte, a management consulting firm.
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust has implemented the Datix Patient Risk Management software to meet the requirement for fully integrated incident reporting.
Chief information officers need to take a leading role in setting up formal information classification schemes to stop them over-engineering them to comply with security regulations, according to a report from the Information Security Forum (ISF).