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Demand quality software, for everyone's sake
A team of researchers led by SCADA security firm Digital Bond announced last week that they had found major security vulnerabilities in industrial control systems sold by five manufacturers. These are systems that are at work in nuclear power plants, utilities, gas pipelines, chemical plants and the like.
What struck me hardest about the news was not that the products have flaws, but that the vendors allegedly were aware of the problems and opted not to do anything about them.
A "large percentage" of the vulnerabilities the researchers identified were known by the manufacturers, who had "chosen to live with" them, Dale Peterson, founder of Digital Bond, is quoted as saying in an article at Wired. "Everyone knows PLC's [programmable logic controllers] are vulnerable, so what are we really disclosing? We're just telling you how vulnerable they are." Read more...
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The CIO's 2012 wish list
Slideshow: The CIO's 2012 wish list
The holiday season is well underway, and the year will soon draw to a close. Indeed, many chief information officers will be thankful to put the austerity of 2011 behind them. As CIOs review their 2012 budgets (and check them twice) they're also making a wish list for new technologies and innovations. In this slideshow, FierceCIO:TechWatch highlights some of the most anticipated products expected to hit the market in 2012. See the slideshow.
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Latest News
Gartner: SaaS-based BI gains traction
Traditional on-site business intelligence appears to be losing some traction in the face of SaaS-based alternatives, according to a survey by Gartner. A third of the 1,364 IT managers polled reported Read more...
iPhone 4S takes enterprise by storm
Good Technology activated more iPhone 4S devices than any other mobile device during the last quarter of 2011. The 4S outpaced the iPhone 4 and iPad 2, and it put the breaks on Android's rising share Read more...
How IT and marketing can find common ground
There probably will never be too much advice on how IT and marketing can work toward common ground--particularly as marketing comes to rely more heavily on technology for its survival--and to that Read more...
Proposed E.U. data rules include 2 percent fine for lost data
Under a proposed update to the European Union's data protection law, companies could be fined as much as 2 percent of their annual sales for losing personal data or processing sensitive information Read more...
ING's 'replicated' approach to global IT
ING has expanded around the globe by giving leaders within the company some autonomy in building out their part of the business in the countries where they operate. While that approach has benefited Read more...
Good enough for IT, but made for a consumer
Move over, iPhones and iPads. There are new consumer technologies in town that may prove useful in the enterprise. Rob Enderle, president of the Enderle Group, presents a handful of items unveiled at Read more...
When conventional IT wisdom isn't so wise
Conventional wisdom suggests that enterprise IT should steer clear of start-ups, discourage the use of consumer technologies, and focus with razor-sharp intensity on ROI. In today's technology Read more...
Tech News
- Megaupload users debate suing U.S. government over lost data
- Mastermind behind Kelihos botnet worked for security firms
- Shipments of Fast Ethernet drop as 10G Ethernet gains popularity
- How hackers can eavesdrop on prevalent videoconferencing systems
- Symantec warns against use of pcAnywhere in wake of code theft
Content Management News
- AIIM study finds enterprise social software improves sales and marketing communication
- MegaUpload case likely has no impact on enterprise cloud services
- Survey finds many users blow by SharePoint security
- Apple needs to step up for textbook plan to succeed
- Pew: U.S. tablet and eBook reader ownership jumps
Also Noted
> HP to release open source webOS in September. Article (AllThingsD)
> The IT-business culture clash. Article (InfoWorld)
> Obama urges "insourcing," presses for visa changes. Article (Computerworld)
> Where are the women IT leaders? Article (CIO Insight)
> Funny stuff IT hears from end users. Video (Computerworld)
And Finally... A lab experiment that's 87 years old and counting. Article (PopSci)
