Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff is actively studying the progress of data-breach disclosure legislation overseas, with a view to making policy recommendations to government, and possibly the Law Commission, towards the end of the year.
First up, you may notice a change in this week’s Computerworld. What do you mean you haven’t? Take another look. Run your paws over the silky new paper stock we are using. Cool, huh?
IT security executives have given a resounding thumbs-up to the introduction of data-breach disclosure laws in New Zealand.
IT services company Axon has come out strongly in favour of Telecom being split-up in its submission to the Ministry of Economic Development. It also questions the place of Gen-i in any new structure.
User authentication and malware are the biggest security bogeys facing New Zealand IT security managers, according to data collected at the SonicWall-sponsored Computerworld security briefing, held in Auckland last week.
Microsoft’s posturing about its patents being infringed by open source software have received an almost universal reaction of scorn and disbelief. Comparisons were drawn with SCO’s similar, but rather more desperate claims from a couple of years ago.
New Zealand could be undergoing its biggest ever datacentre capacity increase as operators across the country build and rebuild their facilities to increase quality, deliver new services and to deal with new technology.
Vector Communications is still in the datacentre business, the company says — even as its main tenant, ISP Orcon, packs up its servers and goes.
New Zealand websites are among the most likely to be targeted by cyber vandalism, according to a new report.
Since Oracle’s new country manager arrived in March, the company has aquired two new companies, the latest instalments in an almost unprecedented $US25 billion (NZ$34 billion) 32-company series of acquisitions since January 2004.
Some small businesses could find their email inboxes going remarkably quiet once Telecom’s internet service provider Xtra flips the switch on changes to its email system.
We all know that, at first for IT directors and now for the whole of the IT function, there is a drive to reduce operational activity and do more in strategic areas. The goal is to use IT to help drive the business.
The New Zealand Open Source Society is opposing those parts of the Copyright Amendment Bill that would make it illegal to circumvent technological protection of copyright.
I’ve been seriously underpowered, computerwise, for over a year now after a Sony Vaio I had overheated and died — just out of warranty, of course.
Last week I wrote about some interesting statistics on ICT exports that came out on both sides of the Tasman. The statistics seemed to show that New Zealand exported more ICT per capita than Australia: $389 per person compared with $315 per Australian.