IT security chief adds business aptitude to CISO skills

Jeff Haskill, the IT security chief at AstraZeneca, is, according to his boss, "a very technical CISO." Dave Smoley, CIO at the U.K.-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, praised Haskill for his technological background, which includes nitty-gritty IT work and
ModelDB aims to keep track of machine learning modeling process

BOSTON -- Sam Madden, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is hoping to help advance the field of machine learning from dark art to principled science with an open source project.
Google, Facebook just fell victim to a phishing scam: The takeaway for CIOs

We finally know which two big tech companies were conned millions by an email phishing scam, as reported last month, and you might recognize them. The culprit -- a Lithuanian man being charged with...
Nestlé builds ‘digital ecosystems’ to transform its massive bottled water biz

Time will tell if ReadyRefresh -- Nestlé's makeover of its century-old bottled water delivery business -- becomes the UPS,
Business of Blockchain event warns big money to play the long game

If there was one message drilled into the heads of attendees at the Business of Blockchain event co-hosted by the MIT Technology Review and the MIT Media Lab it's this: Blockchain looks like it could follow the same...
A new IT security role, a tested reporting structure

The question of who's the CISO's boss is an old one, and there's still no single answer. I