CIOs Archive
ComputerWeekly reports some timely research on what it takes to succeed as a CIO, based on work by a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management. She has talked to CEOs who first climbed the IT ladder, and also to …
Two items here nicely illustrate the fact that IT leaders need to understand the business, not the other way around. Michael Farnum gives some examples that demonstrate it takes maturity on the part of infosec and IT professionals to realise …
ComputerWeekly has flagged up a new report from (ISC)2 (the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium) which contains various items of useful career information for security professionals, including job descriptions, likely salaries, career advice and listings of professionally recognised information …
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 research from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon universities shows that that large companies have no clear stock price-related incentive to prevent privacy breaches. Despite clear evidence of vulnerabilities that could seriously harm their interests, investors fail to give major quoted …
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. …
IDC has done some polling amongst IT managers and established that one of their top worries remains getting staff to play ball and follow IT security policy. As I have written before, the most thoroughly conceived corporate ISMS can be …
I have talked frequently about the fact that CIOs have to change their perspective from worrying about the IT system to worrying about the business. Well, here comes the revolution: Gartner has surveyed 1,400 CIOs and found that this shift …
