Jennifer McAdams

What enterprises can learn from casino security. Plus, why employees ignore basic security principles

When enterprise security pros are designing their network defenses, one thorny problem they're sure to address is how to handle those dreaded consultants -- outside employees who need access inside the network. But what if you're the security pro at a consulting company and your job is to prove to your counterparts at places like financial institutions and government agencies that the laptops being carried in by your consultants are clean and safe?

On par with a trip to the dentist's office, IT budgeting tends to rank fairly low on any CIO's list of favourite activities. While alternative approaches to forecasting corporate IT expenditures won't necessarily make the process any less tedious or painful, progressive new budgeting practices could make life easier in the long run.

On par with a trip to the dentist's office, IT budgeting tends to rank fairly low on any CIO's list of favourite activities. While alternative approaches to forecasting corporate IT expenditures won't necessarily make the process any less tedious or painful, progressive new budgeting practices could make life easier in the long run.

On par with a trip to the dentist's office, IT budgeting tends to rank fairly low on any CIO's list of favorite activities.

With the surge of interest in unified messaging (UM) technologies among larger enterprises, major contenders have adopted very different approaches to this market.

A University of Miami instructor hurriedly checks his voice mail using a laptop to access his e-mail Inbox hosted on the school's Web site.

This year hiring executives will pluck people with the strongest combination of technical and business prowess. Essentially, CIOs are looking for the "Renaissance" IT professional. Computerworld