Conclusion: It is not enough to just work hard and deliver results, although these are essential qualities to get noticed. To obtain that elusive CIO job and then keep it requires more ongoing effort and vigilance negotiating, monitoring and engaging at executive levels.
Limited resources and a lack of skilled staff are holding back councils' IT plans. Australia's local councils are under increasing pressure to modernise their operations and improve on-line service delivery for residents, but many are starved of.....
Who wasn't moved by the story of Alan Turing, the brilliant English mathematician whose dedicated team cracked the Nazi Enigma code and saved countless lives during World War 2?
Fast forward more than 70 years and the ability of terrorist.....
Experts say efforts to get technology and social media firms to cooperate with the authorities in decrypting communications will be hard to achieve. The Australian government wants smartphone companies and social media platforms to ensure.....
Two years ago, mobile device management (MDM) was the buzz. Mobile security was an essential part of a mobility strategy, and every enterprise needed one. Today, not so much.
"About 18 months ago at least, businesses across the whole.....
Cyber security experts said Australian businesses and government agencies got lucky in avoiding potentially devastating effects from a global ransomware cyber attack, which wreaked havoc around the world at the weekend, but warned problems could.....
The business climate over 2017-2025 will present new conditions that are more challenging. Based on various forecasts the eight year period will see moderate growth and that will have a direct impact on business operations affecting how they.....
Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are a fact of life that make vendor management an ongoing challenge for today’s tech leaders…
There have been several seismic shifts with IT vendors over the last couple of.....
Sydney-based IT analysis firm IBRS has launched maturity assessment and methodology tools to assist organisations with the task of SaaS migration.
In order to improve business performance, or reduce the cost of doing business,.....
Forensic software firm Nuix has begun a search for a new chief executive with a "global IPO skill set", all but confirming plans to pursue a public listing in 2017 that may deliver the ASX a new $1 billion-plus technology company.
The move.....
Cyber security experts have warned the federal government must put aside budget deficit concerns and invest in upgrading aging computer systems vulnerable to a damaging attack from a foreign state.
After making a splash in the data centre, software-defined networking (SDN) is now becoming increasingly relevant for the enterprise WAN, with analysts saying the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has the potential to reduce capital and operational.....
FireEye has recently struck a deal Microsoft, designed to place the security vendor's iSIGHT Intelligence into Windows Defender, an inbuilt Windows security offering.
Terms of the deal will see FireEye gain access to telemetry from every.....
The Reserve Bank of Australia's top technology executive has said the central bank's networks are being probed by potential hackers every two seconds and that almost 70 per cent of the emails received by RBA addresses are malicious.
In a.....
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