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The Department of the Interior inspector general has issued a report that's sharply critical of the agency's cybersecurity performance, concluding that its efforts fall short of federal government requirements.

The nontechnical hijacking of nearly 300 unadministered Facebook groups illustrates the security issues facing social-networking sites.

Sara Lee Corp. said Tuesday it has appointed Anne Teague as chief information officer, effective immediately.

IT leaders may not be fully responsible for workers' actions - but they could take more responsibility than they have been, says the Naked CIO.

As manufacturing job losses gut Michigan's economy, local CIOs search for creative ways to eliminate costs.

While social networking sites can be fun for connecting with family and friends, they're no use when it comes to professional networking, says the Naked CIO.

Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet.

If you think enterprises in America have taken it on the chin in this economic turmoil, take a look "down under": CIOs in Australia and New Zealand have been hit by the same storm yet have succeeded in turning things around.

Citizens and watchdog groups are clamoring for greater efficiency and transparency from government agencies, and governors expect their CIOs to find ways to improve both.

As if running a government cyber-security program wasn't already challenging, a recently released report by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Partnership for Public Service titled Cyber In-Security reminds us that one of the critical, nontechnical problems lurking on the horizon is the shrinking number of qualified cyber-security experts interested in ...

A 20-year Conservation Department veteran will be Missouri's new technology chief.

To all those IT leaders - and I'm happy to say it's a steadily diminishing number - who believe it's not part of the CIO's job to connect with customers and tout the company's business value, please consider IBM's new CIO who in just two months on the job has "lost count" of how many fellow IT leaders from around the world have called him for ...

The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite.

Terry Kline likes Windows 7, the iPhone, a PC on a USB drive and cloud computing services.

Kalypso will lead a panel of CIOs from The Dannon Company, Greatwide Logistics and Oregon State University at SIMposium 09 to discuss best practices for driving innovation across the organization and sustaining disruptive positive change SEATTLE, WA, November 05, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kalypso, the world's premier innovation consulting firm, ...

Red Hat , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced momentum in support for high-end workloads on Linux with the expansion of its Advanced Mission-Critical Program offering for customers.

On their wish lists addressed to IT leaders, finance chiefs want more risk-management awareness and better communication on project delivery.

International experience, particularly in the U.S., is proving to be highly valuable to prospective employers and the recruiters who work for them.

Christine Connelly says the NHS will run "a series of procurements utilising the ASCC framework in January 2010" to provide community, child health and acute systems for trusts in the South of England.

Xobni Corp. is releasing an enterprise version of its Microsoft Outlook search app.