CSO news from FierceCIO

Asking risky questions can lead to discomfort or even embarrassment, and the business culture has conditioned people to avoid those outcomes. However, by sidestepping such questions, risk is Read more...

Many companies now consider a chief security officer a necessity. Although the recession has forced companies to spend less on outsourced security, it turns out that security budgets are holding Read more...

Security pros at the office once shunned social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. They were considered high-risk applications that kept employees from working, reports CSOOnline.com. But Read more...

How easy is it to lose a laptop computer? Very easy. More than 5,000 laptops are lost in taxis in London, New York, Chicago and other large cities every year, and many more disappear at airports and Read more...

Every CIO has his team. It usually includes a CSO, a CFO, maybe a COO and an IT staff. But where's the lawyer? These days, it's more and more important to have the advice of a lawyer--one who has the Read more...

With the New Year fast approaching, the first resolution for any CIO should be customer satisfaction. And that's a pretty big order for most CIOs who do not think customer happiness is their number Read more...

It was quite a surprise to read that the personal information of 1,200 eBay users was posted online this week. Luckily, as you'll read in our first story, it looks like there was no security Read more...

CIOs and CSOs don't always see eye to eye. That, at least, was the message last week in Chicago at The Security Standard conference. Geir Ramleth, senior vice president and CIO at Bechtel and Andy Read more...

In new CIO survey from the Yankee Group, 86 percent of the respondents said that they had used at least one consumer technology in the workplace, to either stimulate innovation or realize gains in Read more...

Management consulting firm Janco Associates this week released its mid-year 2007 IT Salary Survey, based on submitted survey forms and public sources like SEC filings. The overall mean for IT jobs Read more...