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The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?
The new and improved Mac hack competition, which was set up by an Apple systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin in response to a ZDNet Australia story shut down early because the university's CIO was concerned about "security and network access".
If Australia is going to take information security seriously, we need more people like the ATO's CIO, Bill Gibson.
Writing a blog is an open invitation to correction, ridicule and abuse, and writing a blog entry about anything to do with Apple greatly magnifies all those possibilities.
Coming up with a business case for a data mining strategy might be a tricky business but if it generated AU$118 million in additional revenue, then it would probably be something of a no-brainer.
Randy Mott used to run Wal-Mart's technology division. Now, at Dell, his unit keeps 53,000 employees, eight manufacturing sites and more than 800 suppliers ticking.
Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?
Balancing value to the business with finding an effective IT solution is the key to successful projects, argues a leading IT professional.
When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
Due to restructuring, acquisitions, or downsizing, many CIOs have found themselves pushed out of the role they worked for years to achieve. Two members tell stories of dealing with downsizing and finding work in a difficult economy.
When Cesare Tizi -- ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007 -- started work at AGL, the company had eight billing systems and a complex combination of hardware. In this clip, he explains why simplifying an organisation's IT infrastructure is the "Holy Grail".
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.
As one of the few genuine global super-brands with over 200 businesses, Virgin faces huge challenges. To find out what role IT plays in all this, Andy McCue caught up with Virgin's group CIO Gareth Lewis.
Motorola CIO Patricia Morrison is focused on improving visibility of the supply chain as the company expands. In this CIO Vision Series interview, Morrison discusses the IT challenges of acquiring large companies, such as Good Technology and Symbol Technologies.
Intel CIO Stacy Smith sits down with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber in a Face to Face interview to share his challenge of saving money while increasing performance. Wireless technology, he says, will be outfitted for nontraditional spaces such as construction sites and hospitals.
Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.
Few managers consider it a sexy area, but well-planned storage systems are critical to the functioning of businesses of all sizes. How has storage technology evolved and how can you plan the right system at the right price?
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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