Tom Venetis

Chief security officers (CSOs) must expand beyond their technical roots and embrace a company

Tom Copeland, president of eagle.ca in Cobourg, Ont., says unwanted and unsolicited e-mail, known as spam, is an expensive and growing problem for small ISPs like his.

Doug Caldwell, chief technology officer for Indigo Books & Music Inc., worked with Avanade Canada behind the scenes to enhance the online shopping experience of the book retailer

It has been a year since Ted Barlow took on the position of Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Plano, Texas-based security product provider McAfee Inc., and already his position has brought new challenges and opportunities. In February of last year, Barlow was McAfee

As part of its ongoing battle against piracy, Microsoft Corp. has announced activation of its Windows XP operating system will no longer be supported over the Internet. Starting February 28, the company said, customers who want to re-install Windows XP would need to call a customer service representative to activate the operating system.

The changed privacy and security regulatory environment in Canada and the U.S. is driving dramatic changes in the role of the chief security officer (CSO), said some participants at the recently concluded RSA Conference in San Francisco. North American CSOs, they said, are struggling to make company security policies compliant with a new regulatory scene.

Symantec Corp. CEO John Thompson

The Toronto Star Media Group installed a wireless mobile delivery system to eliminate paper forms that drivers previously used to track newspaper deliveries to stores and street boxes.