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A recent survey found that more than 40 percent of organizations are unsure how often they are the target of advanced network attacks, and 50 percent take a month or more to detect these attacks. To Read more...

Steve Jobs let loose on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Twitter in one fell swoop during Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) quarterly earnings call in October. In a surprise visit on Read more...

It is easy to get lost in the hype of SOA. After all, the concept makes so much sense. But despite the promise and sex appeal of SOA, CIOs would be well advised to keep their wits about them. As Read more...

I was in Chicago (really one heck of town) for the NXTcomm conference as a judge for the Eos awards in telecom excellence. For those of you who have lost track (and nobody would blame you) NXTcomm Read more...

Securing mobile devices and data pulled on and off those road warrior tools is posing more than a few headaches for enterprises. As some organizations experienced, the security effort is initially Read more...

If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's expectations come true, software and application prices will soon be decreasing as software functionality and security aspects gain speed and greater traction. Read more...

When a state CIO took a stand to fight for open source within his public sector infrastructure, he knew from the start that it wouldn't be easy. What Peter Quinn may not have known, however, is Read more...

As a recent story about ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick outlined, social engineering is often the biggest factor in hackers gaining confidential and financial information from unsuspecting users. A test Read more...