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IT risk management

• The security threats of technology ubiquity

  The ubiquity of mobile technology and internet-connected devices present new threats and increase the challenges for IT security managers.  Continue Reading

• Socialisation, social engineering, and securing the enterprise

  What can and should organisations do to convince and empower IT users to play an active part in protecting data?  Continue Reading

• The consumerisation of IT: it’s a trickle, not a tide, but you still need to be ready

  If media headlines and supplier claims are to be believed, organisations today are faced with an unstoppable tide of many different types of personal device connected to the corporate network  Continue Reading

• Professional advice on sharing data responsibility

  Information is the lifeblood of most organisations. It can take one of many forms, such as physical files, digital files or databases. Furthermore, computer systems allow us to keep data almost indefinitely, and as we generate even more every year, ...  Continue Reading

• The top five SME security challenges

  Best practice in IT security and compliance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is often seen as a "grudge purchase", but SMEs face the same threat as larger organisations - just without their budgets.  Continue Reading

• CW500: How CIOs are exploiting the cloud

  CIOs from the Guardian, Mitchells & Butlers and Oxfam reveal how they are exploiting cloud computing  Continue Reading

• CISO Power List 2012 Nominations closed

  If you are in the business of securing organizations from all threats (internal and external), it’s time to put in nominations for the CISO Power List 2012.  Continue Reading

• Best practice in datacentre transformation

  At a recent Computer Weekly roundtable, in association with Oracle, IT directors discussed best practices for transforming the datacentre and the challenges of such a project. Lisa Kelly reports  Continue Reading

• Self-encrypting drives: What's holding back SED hard drive encryption security?

  The self-encrypting drive (SED) provides a high level of data security, is invisible to the user, does not affect workflow or performance and cannot be turned off, yet SED technology has been adopted by relatively few organisations – so what's ...  Continue Reading

• Self-encrypting drives: SED the best-kept secret in hard drive encryption security

  The SED solves many common data loss problems and is easy to use and manage with minimal impact on system performance – yet relatively few businesses and governments use SEDs.  Continue Reading

• Buyer's Guide: Choosing the right tool in a changing business intelligence landscape

  Business intelligence should provide business decision-makers with insight, but the definition is changing. The growth in data means it can only be tracked on a quarterly or yearly basis, but business leaders want to make decisions faster.  Continue Reading

• Buyer's Guide: Social networking adds another layer to CRM practices

  As with any new technology, the social network does not push away everything that has gone on before. Companies still receive paper mail, telephone calls, e-mails, web contacts and so on. All social networks do is add to that complexity.  Continue Reading

• The IT Apprentice: How technology internships bring niche skills to industry

  With IT-related GCSE and A-levels numbers falling, and university tuition fees set to rocket next year, the IT sector is preparing alternative IT career paths for young people to enter the industry as apprentices and build niche skills through ...  Continue Reading

• CIO advice: Moving to IT 2.0

  IT needs a rethink. Cliff Saran finds out what IT 2.0 will entail.  Continue Reading

• Telemedicine in the NHS: The benefits and costs of implementing telecare services

  Health professionals agree patients will have to do more home monitoring in the future if the NHS is to cope with an expanding population. But how advanced is the telemedicine market in the UK, and how well is the NHS positioned to implement ...  Continue Reading