Shopping Mall CIOs Try Out Facial Recognition Software

Shopping mall CIOs want to know more about their customers

So if you were the CIO for a shopping mall, what would you want to know? You’d want to know that all of your servers and networking gear was secure. You’d want to know what the next “big thing” in technology is going to be. You’d also want to know just exactly who your customers … Read more

The Challenge Posed By Your Company’s Employee Health Data

Along with health data comes privacy concerns

Let’s face it, if you were the person running your company you would have a lot of big issues that you needed to deal with in addition to worrying about the importance of information technology. One of these issues would be the simple fact that your health-care costs for employees are ballooning. Since we now … Read more

Should Bank CIOs Be Sharing Data To Improve Security?

How much sharing is too much sharing for bank CIOs?

When the bad guys go after a bank, because of the importance of information technology it is the responsibility of the Bank’s CIO to keep the bank’s networks and electronic assets safe. However, this is not something that they can do by themselves. Banks need to know what is happening at other banks so that … Read more

CIOs Need To Understand The Risk Of Internet Connected Devices

CIOs need to ask the right questions before connecting everything to the internet

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for a while, you may not be aware of this thing that is being called the “internet of things” (IOT). What people are talking about when they talk about IOT is the growing number of devices that can be connected directly to the Internet. In a … Read more

Should The Salaries In Your IT Department Be Known By All?

Just in case you were not dealing with enough big issues, it turns out that there is another one that just might be headed your way. This one has to do with just exactly how much you are willing to let everyone in the IT department know about your employment agreement with everyone else in … Read more