On Friday I attended (with John Halliday, our Director of IS Audit, and several clients) a presentation by Internet Security Systems on “State of Security: An X-Force Briefing”. This was, to say the least, interesting, and it is fascinating to have a little chink of insight into the cloak-and-dagger side of information security. The presentation …
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SearchCIO’s Wayne Eckerson has has just issued an article on “Five Things You Should Know about BI” (where, if you don’t know, BI stands for Business Intelligence). In essence, he is confirming the maxim that people issues are what get in the way when it is time to play in the world of business intelligence: …
In an earlier post I discussed my search for a desktop search tool in some detail, and promised that I would have a later post with some reasons why you wouldn’t use Copernic (or indeed any other search tools). This is that post. Since the earlier post was written I have noticed that it was …
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I have been running a poll at the top of the blog now since it started, so it’s probably time to change the poll. However, before the results of the poll are obliterated and forgotten, I thought it was useful to just quickly record how well those readers passing through thought their colleagues treated password …
CPA Australia has a story on its website of a survey by HP Australia of IT Governance being out of alignment for businesses. The research wasn’t carried out by CPA Australia (or even the ITM COE) – it was carried out by HP – but it is an indicator of the ITM COE’s effectiveness in …
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