Shamus McGillicuddy, News Writer

It happens so often that it rarely makes the headlines.

But when it happens to a huge financial institution such as Fidelity Investments, which admitted last week that a laptop computer containing sensitive personal information on about 196,000 clients was stolen, people stop and take notice.

And CIOs everywhere start wondering, 'Is anyone reading More...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When it comes to internal security threats there are two types of employees -- those who mean to do it, and those who haven't a clue. Both are equally dangerous.

While delivering his keynote address at the IT Compliance Institute's conference on Monday, cybersecurity author Dan Verton said malicious or not, an IT organization faces an More...

A lost laptop here, a stolen backup tape there. With the daily horror stories about compromised data, customers and employees are demanding that companies get their data security houses in order.

Customers should be burning mad, say experts. Companies that hand personal information over to third parties, such as public accounting firms, are More...

Too many companies are wasting millions of dollars on manual, redundant compliance systems, say experts.

In fact, according to a new survey of 132 finance and technology executives by compliance software vendor ControlPath Inc., 74% said their companies use mostly manual processes, such as spreadsheets and Microsoft Word documents, to comply with More...

LAS VEGAS -- Companies that rely on existing business continuity (BC) plans for addressing a potential pandemic of avian flu will fail.

Speaking at his firm's annual Data Center Conference, Gartner Inc. vice president and research fellow Ken McGee said standard BC plans apply to only geographically specific disasters, such as floods, earthquakes and More...

Companies that build effective dashboards can find big returns on their investment, according to Eastern Mountain Sports Inc. CIO Jeffrey Neville. But deriving ROI from a dashboard requires meaningful metrics -- information that allows anyone from your CEO to your sales staffs to identify trends and exceptions, Neville told delegates at the 2006 More...

Midmarket CIOs who yearn for high-end functionality but can't foot the bill are turning to emerging open source vendors. Although there are risks, experts say it's an opportunity to get in on cutting-edge technology for a more reasonable price.

When security concerns prompted Yodlee Inc., a developer of online financial services applications, to More...

CIOs are taking over from those in the trenches and leading the charge into open source.

Experts say enterprise use of open source has long been the provenance of developers and other rank-and-file IT pros, but as open source matures and more enterprise-ready tools become available, CIOs are taking over, bringing a new top-down approach to adoption.

"I More...

Companies that implement compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act will see a decline in compliance costs in their second year, a study reveals. However, overall IT spending on compliance will continue to grow.

Boston-based CRA International Inc. recently surveyed 124 clients of major accounting firms Deloitte & Touche LLP, Ernst & Young More...

Organizations are using the rising (and documented) cost of lax security practices to justify investment in data security.

Companies have long understood the importance of information security, but until recently most security investments have been at the perimeter. Justifying additional investments aimed at securing data as it moves More...