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    Companies are being exposed to risks by home workers' bad behaviour online, such as hijacking the neighbour's Wi-Fi and opening unsafe e-mails.

  • IT workers: Look for the union label?

    The whole concept of labor organising is anathema to many IT professionals. In an industry with a decidedly Libertarian bent, the idea of joining a union strikes many as quaint. For a recent computer science grad with his or her pick of job offers near the six-figure mark, where's the urgency about an issue such as job security? If for some reason such a candidate loses his or her current job, many think, there's plenty more where that came from.

  • Groups vie for superiority in security standards competition

    The ongoing disagreement between IT security pros about what security standards should look like is not due to a lack of ideas. Those involved say that a void in leadership, a lack of cooperation and coordination, and the necessity to incorporate both technical requirements and the security process within a standard are the major hurdles.

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  • India's licence to open source

    Does anyone really need another open-source licensing model? One of the leaders of India's IT movement says yes.

  • Corporate chiropractics

    We have all heard the phrase "IT needs to align with the business" but what does it actually mean, and how are businesses achieving it?

  • Conveying the value of IT to the business

    It's up to the CIO to promote IT's services within the company. Four experienced CIOs talk about the ways they accomplish this goal.

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