Blog Posts Tagged with "CIO"
The Role of the CIO: What’s Really at Stake
August 08, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
The CIO has become as important as the CEO. It’s a pivotal position that often can make or break the success of a corporation. As criminal hackers have launched campaigns against numerous organizations, the CIO has become much more than an information officer. They are the guardian of corporate secrets...
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LinkedIn Failed to Meet Standards or Better Standards are Needed
June 10, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
LinkedIn doesn't have a CSO or CISO, which for a publicly traded company communicates that security is not a priority. Considering they still don't know how this breach occurred and the minimal attention payed to password security, I can't help but wonder how secure the credit card information is...
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CIOs and Securing Data with Analytics
April 19, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
This expanding rate of potential threats call for a new way to approach corporate data security. The latest approach is one that is based on intelligence and BI tools. Security intelligence applies advanced analytics and automation technology to the collection of information from hundreds of sources across an organization...
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CIOs See Growth in IT Budgets and Staff for 2012
March 27, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
After several years of stagnant or negative growth, most companies are now projecting a 3-4 percent increase in IT budgets and staffing for this year, which can be seen as acknowledgement that IT is critical if companies are to execute on their aggressive growth plans...
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RSA Conference 2012: Day One Highlights
February 28, 2012 Added by:Robb Reck
The biggest key to the success of any security program is achieving goal congruence with the organization. Every security objective should directly support the overall objectives of the company. Security must figure out how our projects contribute to the organization’s success...
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Insecure At Any Speed
February 09, 2012 Added by:Wendy Nather
Security is an afterthought, and a bad one at that. As long as it remains separate from the systems it's supposed to protect, instead of an attribute, and requires users to maintain an abnormal level of awareness, security is going to continue to be as bad as it is today...
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Four Keys for Intellectual Property Protection
February 07, 2012 Added by:Jason Clark
Intellectual property includes product designs, secret formulas, and other trade knowledge. It's what organized cybercrime, state governments and hackers are all going after. Why? Mostly because of the value. One stolen manufacturing process can be worth millions...
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Spending Your 2012 IT Security Budget - Beware of Cheap
January 28, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
If you can't be good, be cheap - the battle cry of the second-rate vendor. After spending 4 years as part of a world-class sales organization, I can tell you that with no uncertainty that I've seen some of my competitors do some absolutely insane things to compete...
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Be An Information Security Green Beret
November 01, 2011 Added by:Chris Clymer
In Infosec, we have a lot of Rambos. We’re used to being looked to for answers, and we’re also used to being in the minority. There will always be more users, more IT staf, more “natives” who do not speak our language and who do not have a strong understanding of information security...
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Federal CIO Salaries Lag - Leads to Turnover
September 19, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
It’s more than just a salary cut. Officials working for private companies also get bonuses, stock options and a better benefits package than those working in the public sector. So who in their right mind would tolerate the smaller paycheck in exchange for a bunch of headaches?
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SharePoint DLP: Don't Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
September 13, 2011 Added by:Thomas Logan
SharePoint's collaborative capabilities mean sensitive information can easily be put at risk. CIOs need to come up with a solution to this content security challenge, while still allowing the positive business benefits of SharePoint's collaboration capabilities in your organization...
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Federal OMB Directs Agencies to Expand CIO Powers
August 29, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
This expansion of the role of the CIO at the federal level is seen as essential by outgoing Federal CIO Kundra in order to drive desired cost savings and ROI through specific programs like the data center consolidation program as well as the migration of applications to the cloud...
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Four Cloud Trends on the CIOs Radar
August 26, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Data Center Transformation: CIOs are feeling the stress of virtualization. The goal is to have more than 100 VMs on each server by 2012. That’s putting stress on the netwok and storage infrastructures which look outdated. The CIO needs to consider the impact of this stress...
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Compensation Increases for CIOs and IT Workers in 2011
August 20, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
According to the first-half 2011 IT salary survey from Janco Associates, IT compensation has increased slightly. While overall employment remains lackluster by most organizations across all industries, there is comfort in the fact that more tech jobs are being added than are being cut...
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White House Hires Former Microsoft Exec as Federal CIO
August 12, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
The White House has named a new Chief Information Officer to succeed Vivek Kundra. Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel, an Obama supporter who attended the inauguration, will become the next Chief Information Officer of the federal government...
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Improving the IT Security Industry – A Top-Down Effort
August 10, 2011 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
Compared to other industries, mistakes made by IT personnel aren't always obvious. Systems may keep on working and may even work properly when its poorly configured. If a system does crash, its often very hard to quantify exactly how much damage there is and what it has cost the company...
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