In Depth

In Depth

IT risk management

• Wrench in the System: How to reorganise IT projects

  When significant numbers of workers have trouble using a business system, and familiarity breeds only frustration, resentment, and hostility, the common assumption is that more training is needed…  Continue Reading

• Will auditors allow your data to reside in the cloud?

  Do you fear the auditor more or the attacker? A lot of companies fear the auditor more. If you hold data internally, you can show the auditor your controls, but the cloud makes such demonstrations more difficult.  Continue Reading

• Buyers guide: The intrusion prevention market

  Gartner analysts Greg Young and John Pescatore examine where intrusion prevention systems are heading.  Continue Reading

• Buyers guide to network security

  For years network security has been seen as central to preventing the undesirable outside world gaining access to corporate networks.  Continue Reading

• Video: Lords slam 'shocking lack of co-operation' on cyber defences

  There is a "shocking lack of co-operation" between the European Union and Nato in defending member states against cyber attacks, a House of Lords committee has found.  Continue Reading

• EDS report on 'dangerous' Chinook software published for the first time

  Computer Weekly is publishing, for the first time, a technical analysis of the software installed on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter, the Chinook model which featured in the RAF's worst peacetime crash.  Continue Reading

• Video: YouTube introduces Safety Mode filter

  Google's YouTube video sharing site has in a optional safety mode that filters out "potentially objectionable" content.

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• Carbon reduction brings financial benefits

  For some time now, organisations deemed to be high consumers of energy, such as mining and refining, have had to adhere to laws around setting and achieving...  Continue Reading

• Social networks offer a new way of sharing knowledge

  The rapid spread of enterprise social networks is still a huge puzzle for most senior managers whose bewilderment at the topic and attempts to make some...  Continue Reading

• Taking the complexity out of communications costs

  Large enterprises are no strangers to the benefits of mobility. Deployments of Blackberry handsets, PDAs or other smartphone devices to management, sales or field staff are almost commonplace. But how do you negotiate the best telco deal? Mia ...  Continue Reading

• Case study: Haysmacintyre mobilises the enterprise

  UK chartered accountancy firm Haysmacintyre has a number of years' experience in mobilising its enterprise data, communications and people to provide financial and other business support services predominantly for entrepreneurial businesses,.  Continue Reading

• Harnessing the full value of identity management

  Identity management is about more than just access; it’s about delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. Indeed, the power of having an integrated, centralised definition of the roles and data access levels held by each...  Continue Reading

• ISACA: Users reject Trusted Computing because of privacy and security concerns

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• BCS: Cost of support outweighs the benefits

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading

• ISSA UK: ‘Treacherous Computing’ can constrain legitimate software

  Why is corporate adoption of the trusted computing standard still very low when over 70% of new computing devices have built-in trusted platform modules (TPMs)?  Continue Reading