CIO Insight Staff

The first CIO of the Department of Homeland Security, Steven Cooper was appointed by President Bush in February, 2003, and he immediately began the daunting task of knitting together the 22 agencies and 190,000 federal employees who now make up the DHS. It’s a tough job, but a critical one. Cooper believes the threat to […]

Larry Ponemon is an information privacy guru who champions the idea of privacy as a driver of business performance. A consultant, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, a think-tank devoted to the ethical use of information, Ponemon has done extensive research on privacy and shared his findings with […]

As if adware weren’t annoying enough, now companies have to worry about spyware: programs being stealthily loaded onto corporate PCs and relaying private information such as your Web-surfing history, screen shots and keystrokes to an unknown party, possibly a competitor. Spyware infects about 25 percent of corporate PCs, says Peter Firstbrook, a META Group program […]

82% of CIOs say e-mail is a significant security threat. 49% say cyberterrorism is a bigger threat than a power outage or natural disaster. 53% immediately inform customers if private data is stolen. 38% say Linux programs are more secure than Windows-based software. 50% spend too much time on security tactics, not enough on security […]

In a recently published report (“The IT Utility: The Future of the Data Center”) by Westport, Connecticut-based research firm Saugatuck Technology, utility computing is highlighted as the predominant force that will drive change in the data center over the next five years. What follows are edited remarks from a CIO Insight interview with three of […]

To hear Rebecca Mercuri tell it, the 2004 presidential election looks, from a certain vantage point, a lot like an IT department in utter disarray. In fact, if it were up to her, IT would play virtually no part in November’s elections, and would remain outside the ballot box until the U.S. Election Assistance Commission […]

Strong Signals: Mobilize Me! By John Parkinson The use of mobile systems in a variety of business settings has just about reached the mass-deployment tipping point, says columnist John Parkinson, the chief technologist for the Americas at Capgemini. And the more they gain critical mass, the more attractive they become. While data problems, security and […]