CEOs Archive
News in Information Age that is simultaneously encouraging and puzzling: according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (presumably, rather than the ‘Economics Intelligence Unit’ the article credits): “…globalisation and increasing competition in markets worldwide is driving senior managers to demand a …
CIO Magazine has some eyecatching research that underlines how critical it is for CIOs to report to the CEO rather than the CFO. The impact can clearly be seen in various ways, such as how much access the CIO has …
This promises to be an interesting event. Sherron Watkins, the celebrated Enron ‘whistle blower’, will be addressing an IT governance symposium in August in Orlando. Ms Watkins is obviously doing well on the lecture circuit, but it’s hard to begrudge …
Coming on the heels of my most recent post about the security risk posed by USB storage devices, here’s a story to chill the bones. It seems that classified military information is leaking out of Afghanistan and offered for sale …
Following on from the last post below, here is the proof. The IT Governance Institute is gearing up to release its 2006 Global Status Report, which was supposed to be available for free downloading from late February – presumably out …
The Financial Times reports that it was 20 years ago this month that the first computer virus was discovered. As a plain English overview of the IT security threat and how it has escalated this article is hard to beat. …
In an article yesterday, a National Computing Centre survey revealed that 44 percent of IT decision-makers admitted they were not fully aware of IT standards and legal requirements, with 22 percent claiming complete ignorance of the issue! Once you include …
…so is it surprising that IT projects so often fail to deliver business benefits and that IT security is so often a business blocker rather than an enabler? CBR (Nov 04) published survey results showing that 70% of IT directors …