May 18, 2012 12:17 AM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
CIO,
Compliance,
data breach,
data leakage,
Data privacy,
information security strategy,
risk managementVery bad things happen when security protocols are neglected. Just ask Stephen Fletcher, the now-former CIO for the state of Utah. Fletcher was fired by Gov. Gary...
May 16, 2012 3:29 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
business continuity,
CIO,
Disaster recovery,
disaster recovery documentation,
disaster recovery plan,
risk managementI spoke with a CIO years ago who went around his data center and randomly shut down servers. He did this for two reasons. For starters, if no one noticed that the server was off for a week, it obviously wasn’t needed.
The other, more important reason? He wanted to see how his IT staff...
November 23, 2011 3:50 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Budgeting and cost-cutting,
CFO,
CFO and CIO relationship,
innovation,
risk managementIt's a short week. I'll get straight to the punch. I heard General Motors Co. CFO Dan Ammann being interviewed last week about GM's strategy for running the business, one year after the carmaker's initial public offering. CIOs should pay attention to what he said about lowering risk and
September 23, 2010 5:23 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
CIO,
Cloud computing,
cloud services,
cloud uptime,
Disaster recovery,
public cloud,
risk management,
SecurityTransferring data outside your four walls, particularly over the Internet, is not an appealing prospect to many CIOs.
But cloud uptime? Now that is an even larger trust issue...
August 5, 2010 9:41 PM
Posted by: 4Laura
CIO,
Cloud computing,
liability policies,
public cloud,
risk managementOf all the potential showstoppers to enterprise adoption of the public cloud -- including such well-touted concerns as security, interoperability and portability -- liability policies have emerged as the one most likely to derail progress. It doesn't take an actuarial degree to predict that at some...
May 27, 2010 7:44 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
BP,
risk managementA story in this morning's New York Times on BP's risk management strategy will no doubt send chills down the spine of many a corporate risk and compliance officer.
The story reports on an internal BP document showing that for financial reasons and expediency, the oil company chose to...
April 16, 2010 3:13 PM
Posted by: rlebeaux
CIO,
Compliance,
risk management,
Security,
Web 2.0Although social media technologies aren't generally a focus for SearchCIO.com, two stories this week highlighted some reasons why CIOs need to establish strong social media policies to monitor their...
April 16, 2010 2:09 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
CIO,
CIO careers,
risk managementOf all the conversations I had with attendees this week at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Las Vegas, it was actually one with Gartner analyst Debra Logan about CIO careers that surprised me the most. Logan is finding that more...
April 10, 2009 2:39 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Chief Information Security Officer,
CISO,
risk management,
SecurityBonk CISO Larry Whiteside on the head, and like Jason Bourne he will wake up thinking about security in 12 different languages.
“For me, security and risk management is a mind-set. When I go into a restaurant with my wife and kids, I automatically see where the exits are,” says Whiteside....
