Lest We Forget About Enterprise Security
By Shubhendu Parth, CTO Forum Team
Are CIOs spending less time on supervising what they should be doing the most—strengthening the citadel and securing the digital assets—particularly when corporate wide cyber crimes and espionage have started to show a quantum jump even in developing economies like India? Security may be a key thing that worries CIOs, but there are other things that keep him occupied these days.
Open Source Software Design Spurs Growth
By Semyon Dukach, Author and Angel Investor
A moral argument can be made that for any large organization to maintain wealth and power, competitive barriers must be erected to prevent young start-ups from moving in too quickly and eroding the margins. Some barriers such as price fixing or dumping goods below cost have been ruled illegal, but others have been encouraged due to their social benefits, and include trade secrets, copyrights, patents, and proprietary software and business processes. No such moral argument can apply to non-profits. A non-profit is supposed to be driven solely by its mission.
Security Assurances are Challenge for CIO’s
From the CTO Forum Team
In an exclusive interview with the CTO Forum, Tom Clare, Sr. Director Product Marketing Blue Coat Systems, cautions CIO’s about the ignorance towards the growing web-based security threats and prescribes simple remedies to prevent from damages.
Optimizing Multiple Enterprise Applications
From the CTO Forum Team
Enterprise applications choke the corporate IT networks, and the blame invariably falls on bandwidth scarcity. Jeff Barker, VP solutions and Technical Marketing at Blue Coat Systems, talks exclusively to Rahul Neel Mani about application optimization and secured delivery.
Strategies for Secure Storage Initiatives
From the CTO Forum Team
As part of their storage security strategy, enterprises must understand the value of such intellectual property in combination with the risk tolerance of the organization before they can address how to appropriately secure it and store it. Moreover, because the value of information changes over its lifetime, so should its storage.
