Instead of spying on staff who snoop into private records while at work, organisations should adopt security measures that prevent staff breaching privacy laws, says a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) privacy expert.
Organisations that have reached a high level of IT security practice maturity can safely scale back security spending to between 3% and 4% of their IT budget by 2008, according to research firm Gartner.
Riding on the back of steady growth in the local market, offshore outsourcing provider Wipro Ltd, is planning to ramp up investment in Australia over the next two years including the establishment of a near-shore facility.
It's hard to believe Australia's peak internet crime fighting agency, the Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC), doesn't encrypt all files.
John Croker, CIO of Australian paint and surface coatings company Wattyl, has labelled an Australian federal government study into B2B (business to business) e-business projects as “dumb”.
Australian employers remain confident that within the next 12 months they will be able to find most of their IT recruits within Australia and expect only 5% to be hired overseas.
With copper prices soaring and showing little sign of stabilising, network cabling companies have been forced to adjust cable prices upwards.
IT professionals need to begin negotiations sooner rather than later to get their multi-core licensing contracts in order or face serious problems in the future.
Claiming she has been the subject of endless scrutiny and criticism during her controversial career in the IT industry, former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina said that leadership comes with a price — which is why it is so important to have a strong internal compass.
Mobility is definitely one of the key themes of 2006 with many organizations putting "mobility strategies" in place this year.
Asia-Pacific CIOs say regulatory compliance is a prioritiy for the New Year and that their organisations keen to leverage standards in a bid to gain competitive advantage.
Find out the true cost of moving to IP telephony before making any final decision, because it is rare to find companies that have actually achieved any real savings, according to Ericsson enterprise division director Chris Pattas.
It sounds simple, but end-users just don’t get it — vendors are there to make a profit. At the Gartner Symposium in Sydney last week, analyst Craig Baty said users are from Pluto and vendors are from Mercury.
A state-by-state war driving exercise undertaken in October across Australia's capital cities identified the risk of corporate network intrusions through weak Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN,).
Telstra has inked more than $A5 billion ($NZ5.3 billion) in contracts as part of the massive revamp of its Internet protocol (IP) network and third generation (3G) mobile phone platform.