Opinion
Opinion
IT security
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Talking is not dissent
Behind the scenes alarm bells are ringing at the lack of consultation as the Government prepares the anti-terrorism legislation. Continue Reading
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IT community should heed Turnbull recommendations on risk
Compliance with the Turnbull Report's recommendations has been a mandatory element of company report procedures for all London... Continue Reading
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Soon all you'll need is a small plastic card
The concept of digital identity has moved on so far that PKI is fast becoming outmoded Continue Reading
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Would you let a doctor fix your car?
Five reasons why you shouldn't let your in-house staff develop your security systems Continue Reading
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Welcome to the old economy
It is time to man the lifeboats for an increasing number of dotcoms; and some senior executives over in the US are definitely... Continue Reading
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Super Hackers: Truth or reality?
Does the 'super hacker' exist or is it all just myth-making on the part of the press? Two industry specialists give EBR their... Continue Reading
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Super Love Bug will strike this year
New versions of the Love Bug e-mail virus with far more devastating payloads are likely to strike IT departments over the next 12... Continue Reading
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More to B2B than counting e-costs
The B2B e-commerce sector has an unhealthy pre-occupation with costs. Customers, both on the buying and selling side, are... Continue Reading
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Why security must come first
Keeping your site secure should be your first New Year's resolution, says Glyn Moody Continue Reading
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Ethical Hacker: Gotcha!
Someone was spending hours every night hacking his friend's PC. Call the ISP? No. For Sten Kalenda the fun was just beginning Continue Reading
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Disaster recovery solutions
A good disaster recovery solution is essential - especially if your IT department is one man band. Continue Reading
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Solution: Internet misuse at work
Like the technology, Internet abuse appears to have proliferated in recent years. There are, however, two ways to tackle this... Continue Reading
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Lessen the risk of buying IT
Colin Beveridge, director of the interim managers association Premit, warns of some of the pitfalls in corporate IT procurement Continue Reading
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Questions raised over Jini as Sun joins rival plug-n-play consortium
Pervasive computing took another step forward last month when Sun Microsystems joined the Universal Plug and Play Consortium... Continue Reading
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Report any e-crime to local police
John RileyGroundswell
When it comes to tackling computer crime, especially e-crime, there's a crippling Catch-22 situation....
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e-Government: the whats, whys and whens
Cabinet Office minister Ian McCartney says UK Online means the Government wants to get people online rather than having to wait... Continue Reading
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RIP Act extends culpability
E-commerce expert Catrin Turner explains the implications of the RIP Act, which makes firms criminally liable for intercepting staff e-mails and similar communications Continue Reading
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Internet security must be taken seriously
Security is not being taken seriously by a great many UK companies that trade on the web. This could be an expensive mistake,... Continue Reading
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So it'll never happen to you?
P> The Internet changes everything, so the saying goes, and while most investor attention has been focused on dotcoms, then infrastructure and security,... Continue Reading -
Who cares if closed IT tendering is unlawful?
The use of framework contracts of questionable legality could lead to all public sector IT purchases being met by a small number... Continue Reading
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Act now on distance selling laws
Andrew RigbyThe Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations, which implement the EU's Distance Selling Directive come into force on 31...
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Security tops list of concerns for IT managers
IT managers are not happy about the UK's Internet trading security measures, according to the results of this week's Computer Weekly/Harvey Nash Big... Continue Reading -
Normal trading rules apply for e-procurement
Most business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces have the potential to generate enormous savings over more traditional methods of selling or procuring goods... Continue Reading -
Web host glitch exposes data
Security: Business data is left exposed while security standard lies idle Continue Reading
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Web control or Web anarchy?
The ignorant in pursuit of the uncontrollable. Continue Reading
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Two-Jags Prescott in online petrol auction
The petrol crisis may have caused problems for drivers up and down the country, but others saw it is a golden opportunity to make... Continue Reading
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Counting the cost of security
Internet security giant Baltimore Technologies has just splashed out 91 million of its shares to buy Content Technologies Continue Reading
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Make a case for security before it's too late
Why is the UK still lagging when it comes to security policies? IT managers should take the opportunity to take the lead in this... Continue Reading
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Is Unix infallible?
Paul DucklinSoapbox
There seems to be a lot of debate about whether Unix anti-virus products are useful. Some people even think...
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Outlook carries Pokemon virus
Simon MooresTech talk
So, what do an obscure Pokemon character and Microsoft Outlook have in common? They share the same address...
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Managing growth can mean living on the edge
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Take time to consider security
Security specialist Gordon Stephenson thinks firms are preparing for catastrophe when the dangers are far more mundane. Ross... Continue Reading
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RIP: a well-intentioned act that only hits the good guys
Jack SchofieldOpinion
The European proposals on cybercrime, reported in last week's issue, are strangely similar to Jack Straw's...
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Caveat vendor
Many senior corporate users are bracing themselves for an increased outbreak of software licence abuse this autumn. Continue Reading
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Why adopt a Knowledge Management strategy?
Key pointers about the value of adopting a knowledge management strategy. Is KM a business or an IT tool? Continue Reading
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Technology turmoil begins to turn
There are signs that life is returning to technology share prices. The Nasdaq Index has been flirting with the psychologically important 4,000...
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RIP is threat to Net safety
Geert KampschoerSoapbox
A ll sorts of emotions have been stirred by the RIP Act - anger, offence, mistrust. Opponents claim that...
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RIP Act negates tenet of e-friendly country
In an open letter to the home secretary Jack Straw, David Taylor asks for clarification of some disturbing implications of the... Continue Reading
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Stand firm on data privacy
The EU's decision to back a report questioning the USA's willingness to protect personal data may cause delays in legislation, but will benefit user-privacy in the long run. Continue Reading
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Learn the Y2K lesson
Neil KellSoapbox
The cynical opinion now says that the millennium bug was over-hyped. But this assessment dismisses the fact that a...
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Time for revisiting long-term strategies
IT suppliers face tough times for some time to come, to judge from those who pay the wages - corporate IT users. Continue Reading
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Constellar win top footy prize
David Bicknell reports from the final of the Computer Weekly five-a-side football tournament Continue Reading
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No respite in face of ongoing innovation
David TaylorInside Track
In the first of an occasional series of interviews with leading IT directors, David Taylor asks Chris...
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Y2K still ripples through the market
Y2K may no longer be an issue that bothers IT directors very much, but the reverberations continue to be felt in the City where... Continue Reading
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EU comes out fighting
e-business The plan by the European Union to levy tax on foreign companies for services delivered in Europe via the Internet... Continue Reading
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IT share fall out cause for fire sales
Ian MitchellCity briefing
It has been a week for fire sales, with Bright Station (formerly known as Dialog) picking up the...
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Was it too easy for the Love Bug?
Basil Cousins of the X/OPEN Group believes business paid heavily for the Love Bug because of its over-reliance on one system,... Continue Reading
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Scenario planning is the way to manage business uncertainties
This column could seriously damage your consultants' wealth Continue Reading
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Potential cheer as well as tears from Boo hoo-ha
The Boo disaster could be good news for the Web industry. But that depends on everyone, from HTML coders to venture capitalists,... Continue Reading
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The late show
Late changes to RIP Bill are not the way to legislate Continue Reading
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Download, play, no need to pay
A new free games site has global potential, Roisin Woolnough meets the gamer behind freeloader.com Continue Reading
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Devastating in its simplicity
There's nothing innovative about the Love Bug's technology, writes Lindsay Clark Continue Reading
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How we allowed the I Love You virus to happen
A lack of diversity among corporate IT systems allowed the virus to spread, aided by inadequate corporate policy. Guy Campos... Continue Reading
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Y2K firm leaves UK
Greenwich Mean Time, the company run by one of Britain's best known year 2000 gurus, Karl Feilder, is to close down its British... Continue Reading
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Firms quit UK over RIP Bill
I've heard that petrochemical firms and several banks have been quietly taking their international secure IT processing out of the UK - to Ireland, Singapore and the US. Continue Reading
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Market picks up after Y2K embargo
Happy days are here again! After the delayed pick-up in work after the Y2K lockdown, it looks like the UK software and services... Continue Reading
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Love Bug prompts security shake-up
Cost of lax security hits home as virus takes a heavy toll worldwide Continue Reading
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Let's get tough on users of unlicensed software
We need muscle to combat software sharp practice Continue Reading
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Tomorrow wreaks revenge on today
It was somewhat ironic that the IT industry's trade body, the CSSA, should choose as the theme 'Tomorrow came today' for last... Continue Reading
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Watch out, Big Brother's here
John RileyGroundswell
Beware suppliers offering juicy Web-based, one-to-one, drill-down customer relationship management...
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Counter Net crime with a dose of classroom ethics
Tony Blair is worried that a lack of computers at school and high charges for Internet access might leave British kids falling... Continue Reading
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Connect with your Intranet
David TaylorInside Track
The new global agenda is on everyone's lips. Any organisation that follows the simple rule, that there...
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ISPs need legal clarity
The case of Godfrey-v-Demon - the Internet libel case settled out of court last week - leaves IT professionals mystified and concerned as to what it means... Continue Reading -
CSL admits benefit IT chaos
Mike SimonsIT outsourcing company CSL is failing to deliver an adequate service on more than half of its housing benefits...
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Internet voting has huge impact on US state election
The voters of Arizona, USA, may just have made political history. Eighty thousand of them turned out in a presidential primary that was already as good as won... Continue Reading -
Thomas Cook integrates Web and back-office to offer two million holidays online
Thomas Cook has integrated its Web site with its back office systems to offer any of two million holidays online, writes Guy Campos.The agency...
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Users shy of PKIs
Suppliers of public key infrastructure technology (PKI) are facing a market shakeout as users shun their marketing message.Suppliers such as RSA,...
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You can't blame the boffins
The flawed development of Chinook's systems holds vital lessons for IT managers. Continue Reading
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IT is the business
Sir John Harvey Jones complains that it is about time Britain saw the importance of IT to business and argues that if we don't we... Continue Reading
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Safety buck should stop at company directors
Security is crucial to the growth of e-business - so much so that company directors should be pilloried if their policies are lax Continue Reading
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Improve your company's credibility by making security a priority
Ian MitchellCity Briefing
The IT illiterate and those who have missed the boat are growing more vocal about the prospect of a...
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Y2K: an endless search for scapegoats
Y2K hysteria has followed the pattern of HIV, writes Karl Fielder Continue Reading
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Two successful link-ups
FI Group's merger with Druid has received a lot of publicity Continue Reading
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Skimping on business continuity costs dear
Tony CollinsThe anatomy of success and failure
Any IT directors who have trouble extracting money from the board for measures to...
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Y2K: the biggest non- event of all time
Unless someone dies as a result of the Millennium Bug, it's not newsworthy Continue Reading
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Law fetters e-revolution
Andrew HiltonSoapbox
Conventional techie wisdom holds that the Internet is sweeping everything before it. But the technological...
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Lax security threatens future of UK e-commer
Poor security could jeopardise UK e-commerce Continue Reading
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Find the time for IT
Ian MitchellCity Briefing
It's traditional at this time of year to consider the year ahead. So, how will 2000 be for the IT...
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Reaping the rewards of your Y2K fix
John RileyGroundswell
Senior IT staff members emerging bleary eyed from their Y2K bunkers this week are finding that the...
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