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Does your disaster recovery plan include your data warehouse? If it doesn't, you are facing a critical gap that could cost you years of saved data and lots of trouble. Now that data warehousing is... Read more...
Laptop batteries were never meant to die. But plenty of CIOs have a different kind of experience. Even when fully charged, a laptop battery might last for half the trip across the country, not even... Read more...
It doesn't matter whether you are the CIO of a big company or a small one. Losing customer data will always cost you plenty. The Ponemon Institute, an independent information practices research... Read more...
It was a bad week in England when it was disclosed that the personal identity and banking details of 25 million Britons had been lost in the government's internal mail system. The outrage and... Read more...
Are you worried about Microsoft Vista's security? You probably should be. Criticism of Microsoft's latest Windows operating system has been common, especially with regard to security. Now McAfee, an... Read more...
Sometimes a CIO has to bring in a tech consultant to upgrade a system. It might happen when there are no people in the IT shop who can handle the task. But there is always a risk in doing this. The... Read more...
Most CIOs realize that hack attacks are becoming more sophisticated. The days of throwing up a firewall to fix a problem are over. And it's less common now for attackers to break in through the front... Read more...
It might be time to open your company's wallet a little wider. A new study by Gartner says that data breaches are set to cost businesses 20 percent more each year through 2009. Are you ready for... Read more...
Your garage is just not big enough to store all of the data that your company expels each year. And it's getting harder and harder for many CIOs to find a safe place to store all that information.... Read more...
Over the past 18 months or so, websites have replaced email as the main source of risk for being attacked by a hacker. Websites are rich targets for bad guys because most organizations have taken... Read more...