Chris Conrath

Articles by Chris Conrath

Corporations need security czar: experts

As corporations struggle with continual IT security shortcomings, two strategies are consistently identified as the keys to reducing the scope of opportunity for those with malicious intent: the creation of a buck stops here, Harry Trumanesque, corporate IT security czar and a security-savvy workforce. Unfortunately neither is the norm.

The czar and the educated peasant

At the IT Security Solutions Roadshow seminar held in Toronto on Monday, several attendees were asked who their company

Dealing with the call centre conundrum

Call-centre data has to be accurate to be useful

The security disconnect

A recent security survey by Ernst and Young (E&Y) found there is both a lack of IT security priority in the executive suite and a lack of security awareness amongst users.

E-health helps medicine play IT catch-up

Health care is very far behind other industries when it comes to its use of IT, so it is not surprising that e-health talks at last month

Windows viruses up dramatically: report

From January to June 2004 the number of viruses and worms targeting the Microsoft Corp. Windows operating system rose by 350 per cent from the same period the year before, with a total of 4,496 new pieces of malware created to exploit it, according to a recent report released by Symantec Corp.

The security disconnect

A recent security survey by Ernst and Young (E&Y) found there is both a lack of IT security priority in the executive suite and...

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