CIO Insight Staff

The digital generation— the largest in history—is just starting to step into the workplace, bringing with it dramatically new demands, ideas and attitudes. Are you ready for the revolution? Just as the post-World war II Baby Boomers of the TV generation dictated the economic, political and business agenda of its time, today’s Net generation—the first […]

Leading Edge: The Julius Caesar Syndrome By Warren Bennis Organizations and their leaders thrive only when essential information reaches those who need it. But far too many leaders today fail to recognize and act on critical information. Just as Julius Caesar, in Shakespeare’s play, ignored the famous warnings about the ides of March, many leaders—due […]

Polling for this month’s Economic Confidence Meter took place in the second half of July, soon after Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that the economy will rebound in the second half of 2003, and grow by 3.75 percent to 4.75 percent in 2004. Between this and other signs of recovery, it’s no […]

The results of this month’s research are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. (To download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in, click here.) Is E-Business Finally Living Up To Its Hype? 42% of Companies’ Revenues Have Significantly Increased Due to E-Business 59% of Companies Report Significant Cost Savings Due to E-Business 60% of Cios Say […]

The rising cyber-security risk, combined with the recent Sarbanes-Oxley law requiring companies to deliver greater information security and integrity, are forcing companies to retool operations-but it’s hard for companies to make the necessary trade-offs between competing, conflicting demands for greater security, lower costs and faster operations. Mark Doll, digital security services director for the Americas […]

Cyber-insurance policies are becoming more popular, but does your company actually need one? CIO Insight Reporter Debra D’Agostino spoke to Gartner Research analyst Vincent Oliva to find out what CIOs should keep in mind when considering such policies. An edited transcript of Oliva’s remarks follows. CIO Insight: Where did cyber-insurance originate? Oliva: It started with […]

CIO Insight: What is social engineering? Mogull: Social engineering is the manipulation of people rather than electronic systems in a security attack. The reality of it is that we all use it on a day-to-day basis-to get a discount at a store, to maybe get into a concert that we’re not supposed to get into, […]

Motorola Inc. CISO and VP Bill Boni has a formidable job: making sure his global company with more than 90,000 employees and 10,000 network segments is secure every minute of every day. CIO Insight reporter Debra D’Agostino spoke to Boni about how he negotiates the trade-offs between perfection and “good-enough.” What follows is an edited […]

A little past midnight on the morning of January 25, a computer worm called SQL Slammer began attacking 300,000 servers on five continents. In just 14 minutes, from start to finish, the worm ripped through a flaw in a popular Microsoft database package called SQL Server 2000, knocking out 911 emergency response systems in Seattle, […]

Richard Clarke is the former White House Special Adviser for Cyberspace Security and former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism. Clarke is chairman of the security consulting firm, Good Harbor Consulting, in Arlington, Va. Click here to read security views from Richard Clarke Jonathan Zittrain is an assistant professor for entrepreneurial legal studies […]

As companies increasingly do battle with hackers, viruses, data privacy leaks and theft and other cyber mishaps, insurers are developing cyber-insurance policies that protect firms across all industries—from financial services to retail to healthcare—against business interruption, data destruction, cyber extortion, cyber-terrorism and other threats to companies’ IT systems. Beginning in 2000, as cyber risks became […]