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Not asking risky questions is risky business

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

More companies in the market for CSOs

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

Botnets getting harder to find and fight

If you thought that botnets were getting harder to detect and remove, you are probably right. Over at Network World, Bill Brenner, a CSO, drew up a list of why this perennial problem is getting even

Security pros get comfortable with social networking

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

Encrypt all of your laptops, or else...

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

Where's your lawyer?

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

The CIO must keep the customer happy

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

Today's state of insecurity

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

CIOs and CSOs: Why can't they get along?

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

Consumer tech in the enterprise? Caveat emptor...

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